You don’t say! D.C. police commander placed on leave for allegedly fudging crime stats

For the “ends justify the means” crowd, they’ve never met a statistic that they couldn’t manipulate to further their political agenda.

A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly manipulating crime statistics in his district, with the development coming on the heels of the story of former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward Coristine, known by the nickname “Big Balls,” being assaulted in Washington, D.C., after coming to the aid of a woman.

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed that Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May, after the police union claimed supervisors in the department manipulated crime data to make it appear violent crime had fallen considerably compared to last year, NBC News 4 reported. Pulliam had just filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief the week prior.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk responded to the development to say on X, “When President Trump floated the idea of seizing federal control over Washington D.C. to stop crime, the press raced to point out that ‘crime is falling.’ Residents report otherwise, but the STATS and the SCIENCE suggest that the city is safer than it’s been in years!”

“Just one problem: At this very moment, a D.C. police commander has been suspended and is getting investigated for allegedly tweaking crime stats to make them look lower than reality,” he said. “And D.C.’s police union says that his suspension is just the tip of the iceberg. The union says its investigation has revealed that cops all over the city are routinely pressured by command staff to downgrade felonies so they don’t appear on the MPD or FBI’s violent crime database statistics.”

“How much of the ‘crime drop’ is just Democrat machine politicians lying to the public?”

Here’s an important story everyone is missing and it was just flagged for me by someone in the know…

When President Trump floated the idea of seizing federal control over Washington D.C. to stop crime, the press raced to point out that “crime is falling.” Residents report… pic.twitter.com/jD1iPabs48

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 7, 2025

After the “Big Balls” beatdown, Trump threatened to “take federal control” of D.C.

“Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released,” he posted on Truth Social. “They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now!”

Trump called for changing the law in D.C. to prosecute these “minors” as adults, and “lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14,” saying Washington “must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see.”

“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore,” Trump declared. “Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and so many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of Violent Crime. If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City.”

Newly appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro voiced her agreement that the age of legal accountability in D.C. should be lowered to 14.

“The D.C. Council, and the president is right, they have got to stop their coddling. Number one, we’ve got to lower the age of responsibility to 14. I’m tired of having these kids commit crimes, and they are crews, not gangs, in D.C.,” Pirro said during a Wednesday appearance on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle.”

“We’ve got an intern, you said it in your open, an intern from college, he gets shot going out for McDonald’s at 10:30 at night. This kid is trying to help his girlfriend or his friend to a car. He gets assaulted and, but for a cop going by, they would have — had they gotten him on the ground, they would have stomped him and finished him,” Pirro said of Coristine. “He was able to stay standing. This has to end.”

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

Are all democrats corrupt?

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) August 7, 2025

They lied about the stats.
They pressured cops to fake the numbers.
They made D.C. look “safe”—just to attack Trump.

This isn’t incompetence.
It’s sabotage.

They’d rather let Americans die than let Trump win.

— Dr. Lucien Wolfe (@LucienWolfe111) August 7, 2025

So crime isn’t down, they just downgraded the felonies and buried the stats.

D.C. didn’t get safer.
They just got better at lying about how unsafe it really is.

The media screams “trust the data”… while the data’s getting cooked in the back room.

— Crushing Woke Culture (@CrushWokeAgenda) August 7, 2025

This is currently happening in many blue states around the country: they’re no longer reporting their crime statistics to the FBI, and they’re using that missing data to claim that crime is going down.

It’s incredibly deceptive.

— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) August 7, 2025

This is the same story in large cities across the US.

Along with PDs discouraging arrests, prosecutors often refuse to charge criminals.

That’s a great way to make your crime stats look better while keeping criminals running free.

— Heartland Grump (@heartland_grump) August 7, 2025

DC STATS pic.twitter.com/fI8rI2IVb2

— krudkrew147 (@clos44748) August 7, 2025

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