Not necessarily, the charges are being disputed. At this point you have no idea if they were manipulated or not.
Still doesn't answer my original question. What is the Crises? Why are we pushing basically Martial Law in DC?
Just came across this.
An NBC4 Washington article published on July 17, 2025, documents allegations that DC police are reclassifying crimes to alter statistics. The piece details the suspension of Commander Michael Pulliam, former head of the 3rd District, amid claims he altered crime data. The Fraternal Order of Police union accused supervisors of directing officers to downgrade felony offenses—such as shootings, stabbings, or carjackings—to lesser categories like "felony assault" or "injured person to the hospital," which aren't tracked in daily stats or FBI reports, making violent crime appear lower than it is.
The Metropolitan Police Department denied condoning such practices but confirmed an investigation.
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“When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Gregg Pemberton said. “So, instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.”
The police department's command staff is focusing on two categories in order to get the numbers to fall, Pemberton said: armed with a dangerous weapon and injured person to the hospital.
“When management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they're going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault, felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed on the department's daily crime stats,” Pemberton said. “It's also not something that's a requirement of the FBI's uniform crime reporting program. So, by changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense.”
The union has been gathering evidence for some time now by looking at reports and talking with officers all over the city, Pemberton said.
“What we've heard through our members and through members of management that were willing to talk with the union is that this is a directive from the command staff, is that they wanna make sure that these classifications of these reports are adjusted over time to make sure that the overall crime stats stay down,” Pemberton said. “And this is deliberately done.”
A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district. The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment...
www.nbcwashington.com
Typical beurocracy in action. Don't like what the actual numbers say, change the numbers and hide the problem and its severity, rather than actually addressing the real problem.
Its looking more and more that the DC police department has got real problems to deal with. Perhaps this federal assistance will help them do so.
......the Epstein files, lol.
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