Feds Probe D.C. for ‘Fake’ Crime Data

“The Justice Department is investigating whether Washington, D.C., police manipulated data to make crime rates appear lower,“ the Washington Post reports.

“The launch of the criminal probe — run out of the federal prosecutor’s office in D.C. — escalates the tense relationship between the Trump administration and local D.C. officials, who have repeatedly cited steep drops in violent crime to question the federal push to take over law enforcement in the nation’s capitol.”