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DC’s Own Police Were Cooking the Crime Stats While Violent Criminals Walked Free — And Nobody in Charge Said a Word

The same Washington, D.C. that lectures every red state in America about “law and order” just got caught running a fully rigged crime-stats operation — where top brass allegedly manipulated the numbers to make the city look safer while carjackings, burglaries, and assaults kept climbing. Multiple high-ranking officials at the Metropolitan Police Department have now received termination notices, and at least two — Assistant Chief LaShay Makal and Second District Commander Tatjana Savoy — have been placed on administrative leave pending discipline.

But sure, tell us more about how D.C. is a model city.

The scandal, first reported by LifeZette’s David Schultz, has roots stretching back to December 2025, when the DC Police Union stood “alone in condemning the systemic pattern of crime data manipulation under former Chief Pamela Smith.” That’s right — the union representing over 3,000 active officers saw the rot, called it out, and the people in charge did absolutely nothing. For months.

Former Chief Pamela Smith presided over a department where the Internal Affairs investigation has now confirmed what rank-and-file cops already knew: the books were cooked. The crime numbers your city council members cited in press conferences? Fabricated. The progress they bragged about at community meetings? A fairy tale written by people with stars on their shoulders.

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The DC Police Union didn’t mince words this week. “These actions, tied directly to the department’s completed Internal Affairs investigation into the deliberate manipulation of crime data, mark a long-overdue step toward justice and the restoration of integrity within MPD,” the union said in a statement.

Long-overdue is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Think about what actually happened here. Violent criminals — carjackers, burglars, people committing assaults — were effectively protected by a system that downplayed how bad things really were. If the stats say crime is going down, nobody sends more cops to the bad neighborhoods. Nobody demands accountability. Nobody loses their job. The criminals keep working. The brass keeps polishing their résumés.

Everybody wins except the people getting robbed at gunpoint.

And this is the swamp’s own police department we’re talking about. Not some small-town sheriff’s office with a filing problem. This is the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. — the department responsible for protecting the same politicians who spend their days telling you that your local PD needs federal oversight.

The irony is so thick you could spread it on toast.

Assistant Chief LaShay Makal and Commander Tatjana Savoy are now on administrative leave, but let’s be honest — the rot didn’t start with them and it didn’t start with former Chief Pamela Smith either. It starts with a political culture that treats crime statistics like campaign literature. When your career depends on the numbers going in the right direction, eventually somebody decides to just make the numbers go in the right direction.

We’ve seen this movie before. It played in Chicago. It played in Baltimore. It played in every Democrat-run city where “progress” is measured by press releases instead of actual safety.

D.C. just got caught holding the pen.

The union’s statement called these termination actions a step toward “the restoration of integrity within MPD.” That’s a nice thought. But integrity doesn’t get restored by firing a couple of assistant chiefs after the damage is already done. It gets restored when the people who built the system that made this possible — the politicians, the appointees, the yes-men — face consequences too.

Don’t hold your breath on that one. This is Washington, after all. The only town in America where cooking the books is practically a job requirement.

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