Whats included in rhe violent crime category? Are you aware that some violent felonies are left out of those stats because DC doesn't include them?
Per capata DC is ranked 4th on rhe homicide rate index.
D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) only includes homicide, sex abuse crimes, assault with a dangerous weapon and robbery in its overall “violent crime” numbers that show a decline in 2024. Aggravated assault and felony assault without the use of weapons are left out, despite D.C. law describing them as violent offenses causing bodily injury and despite the fact that aggravated assaults are increasing, according to the FBI.
The FBI’s numbers also show that homicides have remained higher than pre-pandemic levels in the years since 2020, with the exception of 2021, a year when D.C. submitted incomplete data, according to Axios. Additionally, D.C. saw 12% more aggravated assaults with or without a weapon in 2024 than in 2023 and 37% more than in 2022, per the FBI.
The D.C. Police Union, which represents 3,000 officers, has also accused the MPD of falsifying crime statistics to make it appear that violence has decreased, NBC4 Washington reported in July. The MPD reportedly suspended a police commander in May and began investigating him for allegedly making suspicious changes to the statistics for his area of D.C. Such manipulation of data is allegedly common in the department, according to D.C. Police Union Chair Gregg Pemberton.
“When management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they’re going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault, felony assault is not a category of crime that’s listed on the department’s daily crime stats,” Pemberton told NBC4 Washington.
Do rhere is a lot of fishy going on in DC and a total lack of accuracy.
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