DC Officers Allege Superiors Downgraded Crime Data

Roughly three dozen Washington, D.C. rank‑and‑file police officers and detectives have lodged complaints with the Department of Justice alleging MPD supervisors instructed subordinates to downgrade serious offenses and relabel many non‑injury shootings as a new 'endangerment with a firearm' category. The allegations — including precinct‑level claims of up to 150 potentially misclassified incidents in Southeast D.C.’s Seventh District and that about half were later upgraded — are the subject of a DOJ criminal probe being run out of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office and have become entwined with national debate over policing and a recent National Guard deployment.