The Office of the D.C. Inspector General has opened its own probe into allegations that the Metropolitan Police Department has been fudging its crime statistics, marking yet another investigation into an issue that helped justify President Trump’s crime crackdown in the District.
D.C. Inspector General Daniel Lucas sent a letter Monday to Interim Police Chief Jeffrey Carroll acknowledging the investigation and its intent to “assess the design, implementation, and operation of MPD’s internal control system for collecting, classifying, and reporting crime data and statistics.”
Accusations that MPD had manipulated its crime data to make the city appear safer than it is have become a joint focus of the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill…