The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether D.C. police manipulated data in a potentially widespread effort to make crime rates appear lower at the direction of department leadership, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.

The inquiry comes on the heels of a Justice Department probe into similar matters and as D.C. officials continue to cite local crime statistics to protest President Donald Trump’s takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital, now stretching into its third week.

In wresting control of the D.C. police force and deploying the D.C. National Guard, Trump and his allies have repeatedly challenged the accuracy of local crime statistics that show violent crime dropping to historically low levels since 2023. The chairman of the D.C. police union

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