DC Police Commander suspended and accused of changing crime statistics – NBC4 Washington

A DC police commander is examined because he supposedly made changes to crime statistics in his district.

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed that Michael Pulliam was transferred to paid administrative leave in mid-May-a week after Pulliam had submitted a complaint for the same employment opportunities against a deputy boss, and the police union accused the department of deliberately being fake data.

The union claims that the police supervisory authorities manipulate crime data in the department so that violent crime has been significantly falling compared to the previous year.

Pulliam – The former commander of the 3rd district, who patrolled Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights – was on leave and announced that he was examined in order to receive questionable changes to crime data, five familiar law enforcement sources with divided news4.

This came about a week after submitting a complaint against the deputy chief of police from Executive of Police Andre Wright, three sources of law enforcement familiar with the complaint.

Pulliam denied the allegations against him.

“If our members react to the scene of a crime in which a victim reports that a crime has occurred, there will inevitably be a lieutenant or a captain who will appear in this scene, and to instruct these members to take a report for a lower crime” “Instead of a report for a shootout or a sting or carjacking, she orders these officials, a report for a thief to take the injured person to the hospital or a crime who is not the same classification type. “

The police authority's command opera focuses on two categories to reach the numbers, said Pemberton: armed with a dangerous weapon and an injured person to the hospital.

“If management officers instruct the leading employees to take over reports on assault, or if they return to criminal offenses in police databases and change crimes, criminal attacks are not a category of crimes that are listed in the daily crime statistics of the department,” said Pemberton. “It is also not something that the program for uniform crime reporting of the FBI for the FBI. By changing crimes, for example from ADW BAT or ADW weapon to crimes, this would prevent both the MPD and the FBI from the fact that this is a part of one or a crime of the felony.”

The union has been collecting evidence for some time by viewing reports and talking to civil servants all over the city, said Pemberton.

“What we heard through our members and members of the management who were willing to speak to the union is that this is a command of the command personnel that you want to ensure that these classifications of these reports are adapted over time to ensure that the overall statistics of crime is preventing,” said Pemberton. “And that is made on purpose.”

From the last Monday, when news4 spoke to Pemberton, DC data from DC Crime show that violent crimes have dropped by 28%. According to the department's website, it states on Thursday that violent crime decreases by 25% compared to the same time last year and overall crime has dropped by 8%.

“This is absurd,” said Pemberton. “There is absolutely no way that the crime will decrease by 28%. Last year they suggested that it dropped 34%.”

In April, Pulliam's wife, captain Rachel Pulliam, was broadcast by Chief Pamela Smith from the youth department to midnight in the 7th district.

According to three sources that were familiar with the incident and the time of everything, Wright CMDR ordered. Pulliam to pack his wife's belongings from the youth department and to bring them into the new mission of his wife in 7D.

He considered the arrangement as a retaliation and an abuse of the authority, according to the complaint.

About a week later CMDR. Pulliam's police powers were revoked, said five law enforcement sources News4.

Chief Smith said news4 that she could not comment on an ongoing examination.

With regard to the demands of the union, Smith published this explanation: “The Metropolitan Police Department is committed to maintaining the trust and trust of the public. Any irregularity of the crime data is immediately addressed. I cannot provide official admission of crimes that have been determined by the guidelines. Department of existing command staff. “

Wright refused to comment on News4.

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