Donald Trump promised to drain the Swamp when he took office.
Democrats panicked when he started uncovering their secrets.
And Jeanine Pirro blew the whistle on this disturbing cover-up in the Swamp.
Federal probe exposes years of fake crime stats in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro dropped a bombshell that should have every American questioning what else Democrats have been hiding.
A months-long federal investigation uncovered widespread manipulation of crime statistics by Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department.
Pirro's team reviewed nearly 6,000 police reports and interviewed more than 50 witnesses.
What they found should send chills down your spine: Crime numbers were "artificially lower" than reality — and somebody knew exactly what they were doing.
"It is evident that a significant number of reports had been misclassified, making crime appear artificially lower than it was," Pirro stated.¹
Washington, D.C. police cooked the books to make their crime problem disappear on paper while residents got carjacked, assaulted, and murdered in the streets.
But here's what makes this truly sinister.
Trump issued an executive order addressing the "epidemic of crime" because he had intelligence showing D.C. was drowning in violence and deployed the National Guard.
Democrats screamed he was overreacting and called his deployment authoritarian.
Turns out Trump knew something they desperately wanted hidden: the real crime numbers were so catastrophic that sending in federal forces was the only option left.
Police chief caught pressuring officers to lie about violent crime
The House Oversight Committee released an interim report that exposed just how deep this corruption runs.
Outgoing Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith — who conveniently announced her resignation on December 8, just days before this scandal broke — allegedly ran an "unprecedented system of intervention in crime reporting."
That phrase needs translation: Smith created a top-down scheme to falsify police reports.
The Republican-led committee found that Smith pressured commanders to downgrade serious crimes and retaliated against officers who reported the truth about crime spikes.
Officers who tried to accurately classify violent assaults got punished. Commanders who reported surging carjackings faced consequences.
Smith built a system where telling the truth about crime was a career-ending move.
Think about what that means for victims.
Someone gets beaten within an inch of their life, calls the police, gives a statement — and then watches their violent assault get reclassified as "simple battery" so the statistics look better for the mayor's re-election campaign.
"The uncovering of these manipulated crime statistics makes clear that President Trump has reduced crime even more than originally thought, since crimes were actually higher than reported," Pirro explained. "His crime fighting efforts have delivered even more safety to the people of the District."²
Trump's instincts were right all along. Democrats owe him an apology — but don't hold your breath waiting.
Cities decide where to deploy officers based on crime statistics
When police departments manipulate crime data, they're not just lying to politicians.
If a neighborhood shows low crime on paper while residents are getting robbed at gunpoint, those residents don't get the protection they desperately need.
Meanwhile, Democrats parade around claiming their soft-on-crime policies are working because the fake statistics back them up.
This isn't incompetence — it's deliberate fraud designed to protect failed Democrat leadership.
Pirro noted that while the Metropolitan Police Department's conduct "does not rise to the level of a criminal charge," the department needs to "take steps to internally address these underlying issues."³
Nobody's going to jail for this.
You can systematically falsify crime reports for years, endanger residents by hiding the truth about public safety, and cover up an epidemic of violence — and the worst consequence is "internal addressing of issues."
If a private company cooked its books like this, executives would face prison time for fraud. But government officials who lie about crime statistics just get to retire with full pensions.
This scandal proves Trump was right about Democrat-run cities all along
If the nation's capital — under the most intense scrutiny of any city in America — got caught manipulating crime data this brazenly, what's happening in cities nobody's watching closely?
Chicago claims crime is dropping. Portland says things are improving. San Francisco insists their policies work.
How many of those statistics are as fake as D.C.'s turned out to be?
President Trump has been saying for years that Democrat-run cities are disaster zones where crime spirals out of control while mayors lie about the numbers.
Democrats called him a fear-monger. The media accused him of exaggerating.
Jeanine Pirro just proved Trump was telling the truth — and if anything, he was understating the problem.
Washington, D.C. police didn't just fudge a few numbers. They ran a systematic, top-down operation to falsify crime reports on a massive scale. Six thousand manipulated reports. Retaliation against honest officers. Years of lies.
And they only got caught because Trump deployed federal resources to investigate.
Every Democrat mayor in America should be sweating right now.
This is what draining the Swamp actually looks like. Not just firing a few bureaucrats or cutting some regulations. It's exposing the systematic fraud Democrats use to hide the consequences of their disastrous policies.
Trump sent in the National Guard when Democrats said it wasn't necessary. Pirro's investigation proved the crime problem was even worse than Trump thought.
The American people deserve to know: how many other cities are running the same scam?
¹ Michael Sinkewicz, "DC police accused of manipulating crime stats as federal probe finds thousands of misclassified cases," Fox News, December 15, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
