U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro detailed on Wednesday how the Metropolitan Police Department allegedly misreported statistics to make crime rates appear lower.
A federal investigation found that the MPD significantly understated crime data to make it appear like they were dropping, Pirro announced on Monday.
Pirro said on “America’s Newsroom” that 65 percent of the arrests in the district were not being prosecuted during former President Joe Biden’s administration.
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“And the investigation that we conducted over a period of several months, based upon the report of the deflation of numbers, was very thorough,” Pirro told Fox News’ Dana Perino.
“As you indicated, over 6,000 reports were looked at, over 50 witnesses, and those witnesses were rank and file from the top down
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