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Washington, D.C. police officers are alleging to the Justice Department that superiors misclassified crimes to make reported statistics look less serious than the reality, according to a Washington Post report .

Roughly three dozen rank-and-file officers and detectives have lodged complaints with the DOJ as the city faces an investigation into whether crime statistics were intentionally misreported under the Trump administration. In August, President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to D.C., citing a need to combat "crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor."

Trump declared that the effort "will go further," saying the administration was "starting very strongly with D.C." and promising, "we’re going to clean it up rea

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