By Grand Rapids Anonymous
tuesday, august 19, 2025 at 10:54:00 p.m. edt
"(zh) four weeks after a D.C. police commander was suspended amid accusations that he manipulated crime statistics, the department of justice has launched a wide-ranging investigation into whether the department has been faking data to make crime rates lower, the washington post reports, citing two senior law enforcement officials.
"the investigation is run out of D.C. U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro's office following the accusation lodged against metro pd commander Michael Pulliam, who was put on leave in may after the department began investigating whether he altered crime data. Pullman [sic] has denied the allegations.
"Pulliam's paid administrative leave came a week after he filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief over accusations that the department deliberately falsified crime data. the police union, meanwhile, claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year.
"the doj investigation, however, will go much further - and will include other police and city officials who may have also fabricated or altered crime data.
"'D. C. gave fake crime numbers to create a false illusion of safety,' President Trump wrote on Trump social, er, truth social, monday night.
"'this is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing!' he continued, adding 'until 4 days ago, Washington, D.C., was the most unsafe ‘city’ in the United States, and perhaps the World. now, in just a short period of time, it is perhaps the safest, and getting better every single hour!"
GRA:Trump caught Bowser in a lie,
It's why crime stats aren't that high,
She said, "crime is cut in half,"
All she needed, was "black maff."
--GRA
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jerry pdx
I don't know what it's like in other cities but here in pdx after G. Floyd and the defund hysteria, police response to calls became spotty. It's well known that it was chancy that police would show up, even for fairly serious crimes. I have not personally called the cops for many years, and only done it a few times but that was pre Floyd so I did get a response. People complain all the time about cops not showing up on Nextdoor or other social media sites where they discuss city issues. Police spokespeople say that funding issues and overworked police are the reason for response issues but I don't think that's true. Police funding did briefly go down here in pdx after Floyd but it quickly went back up so money is not the problem. However, I think police dept. wants people to think they are underfunded so have shifted duties around taking officers away from response calls. I don't know that for a fact, but I'm suspicious that the police dept. wants to scare the public into voting for more funding. It used to be that a cop would always show up to a call, and take some sort of report so every time a crime happened, a report was generated automatically. Now cops don't show up even when they should and have eliminated response to a lot of things they used to respond to.
Now you have to either drive to a police station to file a report (if they are open) or you can file something online, something a lot of people just aren't going to bother to do.
I'm not just blaming the police dept. though, I can see how things might changed in other way that is not their fault. Soft on crime DA's, section 8 housing that has brought negroes and mex into suburban areas and spread crime around in a way that "desegregates" it, plus the increase of homeless services and allowing them to camp openly wherever they please have created crime opportunities for them that weren't there before. There may be more crime going on than the cops can respond to, so a lot just doesn't get reported. Latest stats indicate that overall crime in Portland has dropped 11% in last few years but I'm doubtful about that.
I assume--maybe wrongly--that you have a crimestoppers map? The sirens go by my house A LOT,but nothing on the news. The crimestoppers map shows many crimes occurring in the area(8 block radius):mostly assaults(one was assault without murder),vandalism,b/e,car incident,followed by assault,drugs. Many of the streets three,four blocks from me,have become increasingly nig*erish(20-30%). Just a suggestion,Jerry,to check a crime map for PDX.
--GRA
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