Trump’s unanimous legal group prosecutes so-called DC crime data manipulation

First on the fox – A pro-Trump legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller filed a FOIA request Thursday to seek all criminal records and data compiled by the DC Metropolitan Police Department as part of what senior executives claim to be information and crime statistics that were “manipulated.”

The request from the First Law Foundation of America (AFL) includes requirements for various documents from the DC Police Force, including all email communications or internal guidance, reflects any changes in the department’s tracking or reporting of city crimes, and any records “reflect crime data or non-public “crime data and statistics.”

It is part of a broader investigation launched Thursday, four days after Donald Trump released his release For temporary federal DC Both deploy hundreds of National Guard units to the city and temporarily fight crime with federal control of DC police forces.

In the FOIA’s request, the AFL also requested “all communications” records related to DC police officer Michael Pulliam, who was accused of changing crime statistics in May to minimize crime.

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Pulliam previously served as police commander for the Metropolitan Police Department’s third district, including Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.

In recent years, Trump officials pointed out that the investigation and his holidays are evidence of the MPD’s attempt to manipulate or massage crime statistics in the country’s capital, a political lightning rod in recent days.

News from the AFL investigation is as the explosion of “ridiculous” crimes in Washington, D.C. by Donald Trump and White House officials, and repeatedly claims that the crime statistics involved may not be an accurate portrayal of the situation on the ground – a reason for the execution of the administration, critics argue.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told News Agency in an interview earlier this week that Washington, D.C. is “more violent than Baghdad.”

“As the day goes by, there are new examples of terrorist violent crimes across the region,” Will Scolinos, AFL’s chief attorney, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “The AFL is investigating whether the official DC crime statistics may have been intentional forged as stated in recent reports to make the city look safer than before.”

“President Trump has stepped up to make Washington, D.C. safer, safer for all residents and tourists in the national capital, but the left has locked in defending the District of Columbia’s “Safe enough’,” Scolinos added. “Americans know better.”

Trump declared the country’s capital in a “state of criminal emergency” in an executive order on August 11. The order, invoking Section 740 of the DC’s Domestic Rule Act, said federal control over the Metropolitan Police Department needed to maintain Washington, D.C. laws and orders to protect the national capital (including federal buildings, property and monuments) and to ensure “necessary conditions” for the order in which the federal government operates.

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U.S. President Donald Trump spoke at a press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L) and Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) to discuss crime in the Brady Press briefing room in Washington, D.C., on August 11, 2025 at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photography by Getty Images, Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

When announcing the investigation Thursday, the AFL also cited a report released Thursday morning by Washington Free Beacon about a DC settlement with former police sergeant Charlotte Djossou, who allegedly sued MPD leaders for “misclassifying criminal offenses” in 2020 to deflate DC DC crime statistics.

This solution is not included in AFL’s FOIA request, and Fox News Digital cannot immediately confirm the details of the report or the nature of the settlement agreement.

Still, news of the AFL investigation is due to senior Trump officials and presidential allies grabbing the Pulliam investigation to question the accuracy of DC’s federal crime data in DC, the administration attempted to undermine federal statistics released in January 2025, which fell to a low of more than 30 years at its lowest point in the national capital.

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The White House in Washington, DC. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu agent via Getty Images)

For part of it, DC officials acknowledged that the decline in violent crime could be exaggerated (data on the MPD website now shows a 26% drop between 2023 and 2024).

However, they have delayed the notion that crime data should be attributed to artificial buckling. exist NBC News interview Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said earlier this week that a recent review of all MPD crime data found that in the first eight months of 2025, 552 victims of violent crimes were reduced in all seven districts compared to the same period in 2024.

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“Any comparison with war-hardened nations is hyperbolic and false,” she said in a television interview on Sunday.

The United States is first legal, established by Trump advisers, although not part of the formal Trump administration Stephen Miller After Trump’s first presidency. Miller resigned from the AFL and then rejoined the White House in 2025 as Trump’s deputy chief of staff.