{"id":26907,"date":"2025-12-15T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=26907"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:57:44","slug":"dc-police-chief-cooked-crime-stat-books-is-this-why-sarah-beckstrom-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=26907","title":{"rendered":"DC Police Chief Cooked Crime Stat Books: Is This Why Sarah Beckstrom Is Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madadaily.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snipaste_2025-12-15_11-21-20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/madadaily.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snipaste_2025-12-15_11-21-20-735x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>We\u2019ve been tracking the abrupt resignation of District of Columbia Police Chief Pamela Smith, and thanks to an investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the real story is finally coming into focus. Smith didn\u2019t step down out of noble concern or administrative fatigue \u2014 she resigned because the truth was catching up with her.<\/p>\n<p>According to sworn testimony from multiple subordinates, Smith allegedly pressured officers to alter crime data to make the District look far safer than it actually was. In other words, instead of confronting spiraling crime, the city\u2019s top cop chose to cook the books.<\/p>\n<p>Those artificially sanitized crime numbers were central to the narrative pushed by D.C. leadership that everything was under control \u2014 a claim that collapsed under its own weight. The reality on the ground was so bad that President Trump ultimately had to deploy the National Guard to restore order in the nation\u2019s capital. And now, two of those Guard members have been attacked; one, Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, was killed and the other, Air Guard SSG Andrew Wolfe, is fighting to recover:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2000204563362558109&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fusajournal.news%2F2025%2F12%2F15%2Fdc-police-chief-cooked%2F&amp;sessionId=771dd747370d722c0e7e00d2c3b0a1080b3a4c8a&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2000204563362558109\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In part, the interim report says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The interim report, drawn from transcribed interviews with the commanders of all seven D.C. patrol districts, as well as one former commander currently placed on suspended leave, reveals that Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Pamela A. Smith pressured and at times directed commanders to manipulate crime data in order to maintain the appearance of low crime in the nation\u2019s capital. The testimony from the commanders also describes an environment under Chief Smith marked by fear, intimidation, threats, and retaliation\u2014conditions that contributed directly to declining morale and the loss of experienced officers and commanders.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To put it another way, Chief Smith urged her team to misrepresent the true state of affairs in the District. It\u2019s no surprise that she is stepping down.<\/p>\n<p>Think about what this actually means. The chief of police of the nation\u2019s capital \u2014 not just any big city, but Washington, D.C. \u2014 allegedly pressured her own officers to lie about the consequences of lax law enforcement and soft-on-crime prosecution. She misled Congress. She misled the American people. Worse, she reportedly coerced subordinates into falsifying records, using intimidation to enforce the deception.<\/p>\n<p>That is not a minor scandal. It is an unforgivable breach of trust \u2014 with the public, with the rank-and-file officers tasked with risking their lives on the streets, and most of all with the residents of D.C. who were living every day with the reality of rising crime and didn\u2019t need doctored statistics to tell them something was terribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Smith has now resigned, and rightly so, but resignation alone is not accountability. If these allegations are accurate, they demand serious consequences. You cannot run a police department \u2014 let alone the capital\u2019s \u2014 like a political operation designed to hide failure.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the part the city\u2019s leadership doesn\u2019t want emphasized: the crime was real. The danger was real. It was that very rise in crime that forced President Trump to deploy the National Guard to restore order. Now, Smith\u2019s own former subordinates are confirming what the administration said all along \u2014 those measures are working.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Oversight report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On August 14, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14333, Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia. The effects were twofold: first, the MPD was placed under the control of the U.S. Attorney General, and second, President Trump deployed D.C. National Guard to supplement the MPD\u2019s efforts to fight crime. MPD Commanders testified that President Trump\u2019s efforts have been effective.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s effective. Now the district\u2019s leadership must confront a piper who is insisting on compensation, which is a positive development.<\/p>\n<p>As for the attack on the two National Guard members, here\u2019s hoping Smith will lose a lot of sleep, at a bare minimum, for the rest of her life thinking about how her lies contributed to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been tracking the abrupt resignation of District of Columbia Police Chief Pamela Smith, and thanks to an investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the real story &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26909,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions\/26909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}