D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is blasting the House Oversight Committee for its “biased” report accusing Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith of pressuring subordinates to fudge the city’s crime statistics.
Ms. Bowser, a Democrat, called out the committee for relying on scant evidence to take a dig at Chief Smith ahead of her resignation at the end of this month, rather than collaborating with the District about how to improve crime data collection.
“The Committee’s interim report is a disappointing rejection of that good faith approach and instead reflects a rush to judgment in order to serve a politically motivated timeline and release a report whose outcome appears to have been determined before the investigation began,” Ms. Bowser said Monday in a letter to the House panel…