D.C. Police Union Boss Reveals Officers Were Ordered to Falsify Crime Reports to Lower Statistics

For years, Democrats have celebrated their “historic” crime reductions, waving statistics like victory flags while our cities burned. They tell us we’re crazy for believing our own eyes—the vandalized storefronts, the elderly afraid to leave their homes, the families fleeing to safer suburbs. Trust the data, they said.

But what happens when the data itself is corrupted? In our nation’s capital, we’re discovering that the numbers game has been rigged all along, and the house always wins—unless you’re a law-abiding citizen trying to survive in an increasingly dangerous city.

The explosive revelation comes from an unlikely whistleblower: Washington Police Union Chairman Gregg Pembleton, who told Fox News that Metropolitan Police Department officers have been systematically ordered to falsify crime reports by their superiors. This isn’t a case of a few bad apples or clerical errors—this is institutional deception at the highest levels. Think about that for a second. The people we trust to keep us safe are being forced to lie about crime. How’s that for “protecting and serving”?

From ‘Fox News’:

Inevitably you will have a captain or a commander or sometimes a lieutenant show up on the scene and advise them to take a report for a lesser offense. One of the things that we see them do often is sometimes there will be a shooting or a stabbing and if the victim is uncooperative with the police which is not uncommon in some areas of the city, they will be directed to take an injured person to the hospital report which is not even a crime at all but an incident report, sometimes you will have a robbery reported as a theft and other times you will have burglaries reported as unlawful entry or thefts. This is something that’s been unfortunately part and parcel of the police department for some time and we are skeptical that these crime stats are accurate.

The Mechanics of Manipulation

Here’s how the scam works. When officers respond to violent crimes—stabbings, shootings, robberies—supervisors arrive on scene and pressure them to downgrade the incidents. A shooting becomes an “injured person report.” A robbery gets filed as simple theft. Burglaries transform into “unlawful entries.” Each manipulation makes the city appear safer on paper while real victims suffer in silence.

This systematic fraud has caught the attention of the Trump administration, which has launched an investigation into the allegations. A high-ranking MPD official, Michael Pulliam, has already been suspended over the scandal. But this is likely just the tip of the iceberg.

Blood on the Balance Sheets

While bureaucrats were busy cooking the books, real people were dying in D.C.’s streets. Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, a congressional intern for Republican Rep. Ron Estes, was fatally shot less than a mile from the White House. Two Israeli Embassy employees were murdered at the Capital Jewish Museum by an alleged pro-Hamas activist. But hey, at least the spreadsheets looked good, right?

These aren’t statistics to be manipulated—they’re American lives lost while politicians played games with public safety. Yet according to the fraudulent data, violent crime supposedly dropped by one-third. The reality on the ground tells a different story.

The Root of the Rot

Pembleton traces this crisis directly to the D.C. City Council’s 2020 “justice reform act”—a sweeping piece of legislation that gutted police authority and prevented officers from holding criminals accountable. Five years later, the results have been catastrophic: the department now faces over 800 officer vacancies, forcing remaining cops to work 2 million hours of mandatory overtime annually. Let me repeat that: 2 million hours of overtime. That’s not a typo.

When asked about the motivation behind the false reporting, Pembleton told the truth: it’s “politically expedient for the police department and elected officials.” In other words, Democrat politicians would rather lie about crime than admit their soft-on-crime policies have failed spectacularly.

This pattern of deception extends beyond simple data manipulation. Democrats have deliberately excluded aggravated assault and felony assault from their violent crime statistics, even though D.C. law classifies these as violent offenses. It’s not just moving the goalposts—it’s pretending the game isn’t even being played.

Key Takeaways

• D.C. police officers were ordered to falsify crime reports by their superiors
• Violent crimes were deliberately downgraded to make statistics look better
• The 2020 “justice reform act” created an 800+ officer shortage crisis
• Real victims died while Democrats manipulated data for political gain

Sources: BizPac Review, Daily Caller

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