A House oversight panel has released a report alleging the outgoing police chief for Washington, D.C., manipulated crime statistics, pressuring commanders to create the appearance that the situation in the nation’s capital is better than the numbers in fact show.
Metropolitan Police Department commanders testified that Chief Pamela A. Smith cultivated an environment of "fear, intimidation, threats, and retaliation," which "contributed directly to declining morale and the loss of experienced officers and commanders," the GOP-led House Oversight Committee said Sunday in announcing the release of the report.
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