The scrutiny and criticism from the left over President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize the Washington, D.C., police department was accompanied by data that purportedly showed violent crime was at a 30-year low in the nation’s capital.

But according to analysis done by the Washington Free Beacon, the data produced by city police downgrades certain crimes to be non-violent, following a pattern of rigging crime stats that dates to 2019.

Further, it was reported last month that the Metropolitan Police Department suspended and kicked off an investigation into one of its top commanders for allegedly falsifying crime data in his district.

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