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FIRST ON FOX — A pro-Trump legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller filed a FOIA request Thursday seeking all crime records and data compiled by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, as part of an effort to scrutinize information and crime statistics that senior adminis tration officials allege have been “manipulated.”
The request by the America First Legal Foundation (AFL) includes demands for a wide range of documents from D.C.’s police force, including all email communications or internal guidance reflecting any changes in the department’s tracking or reporting of crimes in the city, as well as any records “reflecting the falsification or non-publication” of crime data and statistics, among other things.
It is part of a broader investigation AFL launched on Thursday, just four days after President Donald Trump issued his order to temporarily federalize D.C. both by deploying hundreds of D.C. National Guard troops into the city, and temporarily taking federal control of D.C.’s police force to crack down on crime.
In the FOIA request, AFL also asked for records of “all communications” related to Michael Pulliam, the D.C. police officer who was placed on administrative leave in May, after he was accused of changing crime statistics to minimize crimes.
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Pulliam formerly served as a police commander for the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third District, which includes Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.
The Pulliam investigation has become something of a political lightning rod in recent days, as Trump officials have pointed to the investigation and his leave as evidence that MPD has sought to manipulate or massage crime statistics in the nation’s capital.
News of the AFL probe comes as President Donald Trump and White House officials have blasted what they describe as a “ridiculous” amount of crime in D.C., and claimed repeatedly that the crime statistics in question might not be an accurate portrayal of the…
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