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Serious crimes are being deliberately and dishonestly downgraded to keep them from public view and understate the severity of the crime problem in the Nation’s Capital - due to the orders and coercion tactics of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Police Chief Pamela A. Smith - a House Oversight Committee report released Sunday reveals. “During Smith’s time as Chief of Police, the Committee was made aware of allegations that senior MPD officials are deliberately falsifying publicly reported crime data to artificially lower public-facing crime rates in the District,” according to “Leadership Breakdown: How D.C.’s Police Chief Undermined Crime Data Accuracy,” an interim report presenting the results of transcribed interviews with eight MPD commanders under Smith’s authority. Since Smith took office in July of 2023, the commanders say, there have been clear “pressures placed on MPD personnel to lower the classifications of crime to present to the public the perception of low crime in the District”: “Specifically, there was an emphasis on the daily crime report (DCR), a public-facing dataset that only includes nine categories of felony offenses.” As a result, downgrading serious crimes to intermediate offenses that aren’t reported understates and hides the true severity of crime in D.C. Examples of ways they were forced to downgrade offenses to prevent them from being reported provided by the commanders include: Being instructed to reduce “assault with a dangerous weapon” to “endangerment with a firearm” because the victim was not actually hit with the bullet fired. Categorizing an obvious burglary as “unlawful entry and a theft,” in order to avoid inclusion in the crime count publicly reported. Chief Smith’s orders and coercion to downgrade the classification of crimes reportedly intensified in August when President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the Nation’s Capital and deployed a surge of federal law enforcement to protect its residents, prompting the Committee’s investigation: “The Committee, in its broad jurisdiction over the District, launched its investigation after receiving reports from reliable sources that senior officials at the MPD were deliberately lowering crime statistics prior to the President’s federal surge. Critics of the President’s surge had used crime statistics that claimed lower crime levels to argue that the surge was misguided.” As an example of Chief Smith’s disdain for the truth, testimony quoted her commenting on a commander under her authority: “I would rather him make something up than tell me that.” When subordinates refused to dishonestly manipulate crime statistics to her liking, Chief Smith would punish them, creating a culture of fear, intimidation, threats, and retaliation, the commanders told the Committee: “The Committee heard testimony from commanders that Chief Smith engaged in retribution in the form of retaliatory transfers and demotions against various MPD officials. “According to multiple commanders, Chief Smith either threatened to take or took action to remove or transfer MPD personnel who did not present her with favorable crime statistics or who—in Chief Smith’s judgement—questioned her actions.” While Smith is scheduled to resign on December 31, the report concludes that she needs to be dismissed immediately to ensure the manipulation of statistics and retaliation against honest subordinates doesn’t continue: “Crime classifications—which affect reported MPD crime data—have been and are still at risk of being artificially reduced to manipulate crime statistics at the expense of public safety even after Chief Smith’s resignation.”

Despite ABC hiring them all teams of makeup artists and stylists, the liberal ladies of The View didn’t have a mirror for their much needed, much ignored self-reflection. Their hypocrisy was on full display during Monday’s show as they chose to bash President Trump during a segment about mourning all the tragedies around the world over the weekend. While wondering where all the hate in the world came from, they lied about Trump not sharing condolences for shooting victims. “I used to think that gun violence was just an American phenomenon and now we see this sort of anti-Semitic attack in Australia,” co-host Sunny Hostin declared. She openly wondered where the hate came from: And then, you know, kids going to college at Brown in the middle of finals getting murdered. What are those families going through? I'm just -- Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? Hostin was in desperate need of a mirror because she was one of the most hate-fueled talking heads on American TV. Earlier this year, she said she feared her white neighbors and speculated they were racists who would call the cops on her son for jogging. She had also made excuses for assassination.   The View is a purveyor of hate. Now, after the tragic weekend, they wonder why there's so much hate. "Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? Not just in this country," Sunny Hostin, one of the most hate-fueled people on TV. pic.twitter.com/ox73cTuPq6 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 15, 2025   Pretend independent Sara Haines followed up Hostin with her own hate. She tried to link the anti-Semitic, radical Islamic attack at Australia’s Bondi Beach with American conservatives by falsely playing up support for neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes: We're seeing a massive uprising in anti-Semitism globally but in this country there is a divide on the right right now, actually, whether Republicans want to embrace figures like Nick Fuentes who is -- hates everyone, just so you know. He hates all of you. But he absolutely hates Jewish people and it's not criticism of Israel, it's not something you can apologize away. He is a bad dude and people are giving him platforms. Tucker Carlson has embraced him. There are people denouncing him. There was no wide support for Fuentes on the right. In fact, most prominent conservative influencers had denounced him and his sympathizers by mocking them into oblivion. Yet, Haines herself was a source of hate; she once proclaimed that pro-lifers should die of cancer.   Sara Haines follows up by claiming Republicans are embracing Nick Fuentes. They're not. They wonder 'Why so much hate?' while The View pushes hate and division. pic.twitter.com/vkxFxkm6DJ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 15, 2025   Moderator Whoopi Goldberg was understandably irritated by Trump’s unnecessary comments directed at left-wing director and activist Rob Reiner after news broke of his murder. But her hate of Trump took over and she made up lies about him not sharing condolences for the shooting victims in Australia and Brown University: I don't understand the man in that White House because he talks so much about Charlie Kirk and caring, and suddenly this is what he puts out. Have you no shame?! No shame at all?! This is -- can you get any lower?! I don't think so. And what do you have to say about what's happened around the world? Where is our voice as Americans? Somebody’s got to speak up for us. Our hearts are breaking through all of this. Through Rob, through what's happened at Bondi Beach, what happened at Brown, and you don't find the time to say, as Americans, ‘we hate what's happening?’   Evidence on The view's hate on full display. ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg lies that President Trump did not share condolences for the shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach. She then bitterly declares that Trump "ain't my president, man." pic.twitter.com/RcDgp8gGIR — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 15, 2025   “You ain't my president, man,” she bitterly declared as they went to a break. Upon returning from the break, Goldberg was made to issue a “correction.” “As it turns out, yesterday apparently, You Know Who put his condolences out to the people who are looking down at us from Heaven and the folks at Brown,” she huffed, refusing to say Trump’s name. “So my bad, you did say something. Not what I would liked to have heard from you, but you did do it, so there you go.”   Following the commercial break, Whoopi was made to issue a "correction" and admit that Trump shared condolences for the shooting victims, and she refused to say Trump's name: "I'm going to make a correction here. As it turns out yesterday apparently You Know Who put his… pic.twitter.com/rf6uwXtp7J — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 15, 2025   The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 15, 2025 11:05:46 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: I think we should be saddened by the gun violence that we're seeing. I used to think that gun violence was just an American phenomenon and now we see this sort of anti-Semitic attack in Australia. SARA HAINES: On the first day of Hanukkah. HOSTIN: On the first day of Hanukkah, which is so disgusting and disturbing. And then, you know, kids going to college at Brown in the middle of finals getting murdered. What are those families going through? I'm just -- Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? Not just in this country. HAINES: And it's all awful in its own lanes. I want to speak to the Australia thing. We're seeing a massive uprising in anti-Semitism globally but in this country there is a divide on the right right now, actually, whether Republicans want to embrace figures like Nick Fuentes who is -- hates everyone, just so you know. He hates all of you. But he absolutely hates Jewish people and it's not criticism of Israel, it's not something you can apologize away. He is a bad dude and people are giving him platforms. Tucker Carlson has embraced him. There are people denouncing him. But I think it's important to watch when you start normalizing this treatment of anyone. We've seen it in different forms and right now, more than ever, this is on the rise. Australia, who has really strict gun laws, has seen five times the crimes against Jewish people than they have in the last decade. So, there's a problem. The bell is being rung. (…) 11:11:31 A.M. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I don't understand the man in that White House because he talks so much about Charlie Kirk and caring, and suddenly this is what he puts out. Have you no shame?! No shame at all?! This is -- can you get any lower?! I don't think so. And what do you have to say about what's happened around the world? Where is our voice as Americans? Somebody’s got to speak up for us. Our hearts are breaking through all of this. Through Rob, through what's happened at Bondi Beach, what happened at Brown, and you don't find the time to say, as Americans, ‘we hate what's happening?’ You ain't my president, man. We’ll be right back. (…) 11:17:15 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: I'm going to make a correction here. As it turns out, yesterday apparently, You Know Who put his condolences out to the people who are looking down at us from Heaven and the folks at Brown. But this is how he followed it up. ANA NAVARRO: About Rob Reiner. GOLDBERG: About Rob Reiner. So my bad, you did say something. Not what I would liked to have heard from you, but you did do it, so there you go. (…)

Resigning Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith deliberately manipulated Washington, D.C., crime data to appear lower, according to a new report.The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's majority staff released an interim report on Sunday as part of its ongoing investigation into allegations that MPD leadership pressured commanders to alter crime stats. The committee launched the probe into the department in August.'Chief Smith should resign today.'After interviewing seven acting MPD commanders and one suspended MPD commander, the committee found that the department's leadership placed "a higher priority on suppressing public reporting of crime statistics than stopping crime itself."The commanders allegedly told lawmakers that "they were not only pressured, but also instructed, to lower crime classifications to lesser intermediate offenses in such a way that those offenses would not be included in the [daily crime report] reported to the public."Smith allegedly created a "toxic management culture" that propagated a "culture of fear, intimidation, threats, and retaliation," the report read.Lawmakers concluded that the MPD's crime data remains at risk of manipulation despite Smith's recent resignation announcement. RELATED: Whistleblower alleges widespread manipulation of DC crime stats, fueling Oversight Committee probe James Comer. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images"Every single person who lives, works, or visits the District of Columbia deserves a safe city, yet it's now clear the American people were deliberately kept in the dark about the true crime rates in our nation's capital," stated committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.). "Testimony from experienced and courageous MPD commanders has exposed the truth: Chief Pamela Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda. Chief Smith's decision to mislead the public by manipulating crime statistics is dangerous and undermines trust in both local leadership and law enforcement.""Her planned resignation at the end of the month should not be seen as a voluntary choice, but as an inevitable consequence that should have occurred much earlier. Chief Smith should resign today," Comer added. Former Police Commander Michael Pulliam was placed on administrative leave in May and later suspended after he was accused of manipulating crime data. Smith stated at the time that the department was committed to immediately addressing "any irregularity in crime data.""Any allegation of this behavior will be dealt with through our internal processes, which will ensure those members are held accountable," she declared.RELATED: DC police commander under investigation for allegedly manipulating crime stats Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesHowever, Smith announced her resignation last week, effective December 31. While she did not give a reason for her departure, some critics questioned the timing amid the ongoing allegations against her and the department.These allegations against the department and its leadership emerged amid President Donald Trump's warning that his administration would take over D.C. if its leaders failed to address the area's crime crisis.The MPD did not respond to a request for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A social media user appeared to make a threat against Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who referred the message to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The user appeared to post a heinous meme mocking the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk and added, "Your [sic] next buddy turn down the rhetoric."Former US Attorney Jay Town responded that the meme and the message could be prosecuted as a threat against the senator's life.Lee posted a screenshot of the alleged message, which was deleted from the X platform."It’s 'you’re,' not 'your,'" Lee responded. "Also, you just committed a federal offense."The senator also tagged the accounts for FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi."This is a clear threat," he wrote in a follow-up message. The account was later suspended, and it no longer appears on the platform.Former U.S. Attorney Jay Town responded that the meme and the message could be prosecuted as a threat against the senator's life."[Find Out] phase is coming when there’s a knock on your door! You can then explain how posting a pic of Charlie getting assassinated with 'you’re next' to a US Senator isn’t a threat… …TO A JURY!" he wrote.Others questioned whether the message constituted a federal offense, but the meme ridiculing Kirk's death was universally condemned.Efforts to reach the person who ran the account were unsuccessful.RELATED: Liberal arts student cites Mao in video calling for more political assassinations after Kirk While many called for all sides to tone down their political rhetoric in the wake of Kirk's shooting death in September, others online have lost careers and faced public outrage over their comments ridiculing the incident.Blaze News has also reached out to Sen. Mike Lee's office for comment. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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