Washington, D.C., faces one of the nation’s worst crime crises — with murder and robbery rates dwarfing those of entire states, according to FBI data.
While national crime statistics already capture only a fraction of offenses — just 40% of violent crimes and 30% of property crimes are reported — the situation in the nation’s capital is even worse, Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott Jr. wrote for The Federalist.
Police officers and union leaders have long accused the Metropolitan Police Department of manipulating numbers, downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, and misclassifying violent incidents to make the city’s crime picture look less severe. In one case, a domestic violence assault that left a victim with a deep cut was reclassified as a “sick person to the hospital,” keeping it off the books as a serious crime, Lott wrote.
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