Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, says her office has determined that Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department manipulated crime statistics but concluded the conduct does not warrant criminal charges.
Pirro’s findings follow the House Oversight Committee’s report that accused MPD leadership of deliberately altering crime data to make public safety conditions appear better than they were.
The committee’s interim report, based on interviews with eight senior MPD commanders, alleged that Police Chief Pamela Smith fostered what lawmakers described as a “toxic management culture” and oversaw the manipulation of crime statistics.
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