DC’s Top Cops Were Cooking the Books. Now the Reckoning Is Here.
Investigation · DC Metro
More than a dozen high-ranking Metropolitan Police Department officials have been placed on administrative leave after an internal investigation found evidence that crime statistics were deliberately altered — downgraded or erased entirely — to make the city look safer than it was.
WHAT WE KNOW
12+ senior MPD officers placed on administrative leave
2 assistant police chiefs among those under investigation
3 bodies now scrutinizing the data — MPD, DOJ, and Congress
? how many crimes were downgraded or never counted at all
