The Big Hoax: Crime Statistics
The legacy media take on Trump's crime crackdown in DC was to say that crime was aready declining there. For instance, from CBS News : Identifying the specific causes of changes in criminal activity is complex because it can be driven by many factors – and local police data was already showing that reported crimes were trending downward in Washington prior to the president's action. Violent crime, for example, in the two weeks prior to Aug. 7, was down about 20% already from the same period in prior years, according to the MPD data. But the assertion that DC crime had already been declining is actually very questionable : Last month, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) informed Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Pamela Smith, in a letter, that his committee is “investigating disturbing allegations that DC crime data is inaccurate and intentionally manipulated.” Comer told Smith that a whistleblower “with direct knowledge of internal MPD ...