A spokesperson for Pirro’s office declined to comment on the existence of such an investigation, and the Washington Examiner contacted the MPD for comment.

Reports on the investigation surfaced a day after Trump suggested the MPD is being investigated over its allegedly fake crime data.

“D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing!”

Trump went on to tout his own actions last week related to the federalization of the local police force and the deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in the district.

“Until 4 days ago, Washington, D.C., was the most unsafe ‘city’ in the United States, and perhaps the World,” he said. “Now, in just a short period of time, it is perhaps the safest, and getting better every single hour! People are flocking to D.C. again, and soon, the beautification will begin!”

Questions arose regarding the validity of the district’s crime numbers after MPD 3rd District Commander Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in May for allegedly doctoring the data. Pulliam has denied the allegations.

Responding to the investigation into the commander, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said department leadership has only found data anomalies in one police district.

“The chief of police had concerns about one commander, investigated all seven districts, and verified that the concern was with one person,” she told NBC4 Washington on Aug. 11, the day that Trump started the federal takeover of the district’s crime response. “So, we are completing that investigation, and we don’t believe it implicates many cases.”

MPD Chief Pamela Smith declined to comment on Pulliam’s case, saying it’s an internal matter.

However, DC Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton believes the practice is applicable to any police official who directs rank-and-file officers to “take a report for a lesser offense” from the victims at a crime scene.

“Instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification,” he said in an interview with NBC4 Washington last month.

The daily crime reports published by the MPD are flawed partly because they don’t count unreported crimes and have a limited definition of what a “violent crime” entails. The police department’s database only considers homicide, sex abuse crimes, assault with a dangerous weapon, and robbery in its data on violent crime. Aggravated assault and felony assault without a weapon are left out entirely, even though they result in bodily injury.

As of Tuesday, the MPD reported that all violent crimes are down 27% compared to the same time last year, and homicides are only down 11%. Only 13 more murders need to be committed to match the year-to-date murders from 2024.

While district officials and Democrats have been quick to point to a 30-year low in violent crime, Pemberton argued the drop in crime rates may not be as large as believed.

TRUMP SAYS DC IS ‘GETTING BETTER’ WHILE DECRYING ‘FAKE’ CRIME NUMBERS

“There’s a, potentially, a drop from where we were in 2023,” he said, referring to the year with the highest homicide rate seen in the district since 1997. “I think that there’s a possibility that crime has come down. But the department is reporting that in 2024, crime went down 35% — violent crime — and another 25% through August of this year.”

Pemberton, who oversees a union of roughly 3,000 officers, added, “That is preposterous to suggest that cumulatively we’ve seen 60-plus percent drops in violent crime from where we were in ’23, because we’re out on the street. We know the calls we’re responding to.”