The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, is facing accusations it routinely manipulates statistics on crimes such as stabbings, shootings and carjackings to create the appearance that violent offenses are dropping.

At least one high-ranking officer has been suspended so far over the disturbing allegations, which the DC Police Union has said effectively reflect standard operating procedure.

“When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” DC Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton told NBC Washington last month.

Michael Pulliam, police commander of the DC’s 3rd D

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