Not All Washington DC Crimes Counted
3. A formerly DC-based journalist revealed Thursday that she was “violently attacked and sexually assaulted” in the nation’s capital – and that the city’s police department refused to include the incident in their crime stats.
Anna Giaritelli, a homeland security reporter with the Washington Examiner, detailed the heinous, broad-daylight assault against her, as well as the response from the Metropolitan Police Department and the court system, in a dramatic op-ed – which comes days after President Trump announced a sweeping crime crackdown in Washington, DC.
“On a Saturday morning in 2020, I walked out of my apartment on Capitol Hill to mail a package at a post office several blocks from the US Capitol. I put on my black sweatshirt and black sweatpants then headed out the door. I never made it to the post office,” Giaritelli wrote. “Just one block from my apartment building’s entrance, I was attacked by a large man well over six feet tall. He charged at me for a reason that I still do not understand. In broad daylight and on well-traveled 2nd Street NE next to Union Station, I fought to get away as he sexually assaulted me,” she continued.
Giaritelli explained that the attack demonstrated to her, firsthand, how “DC police and the courts fail the public.”
Despite her attacker, described as a “homeless man,” being apprehended “months later” and sentenced to prison time, Giaritelli wrote: “If you look for evidence that the attack happened in the city’s crime statistics, you won’t find it.”
“DC police covered up the unspeakable wrong that the stranger did to me,” the reporter said.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s online “Crime Cards” statistics page – which purportedly tracks criminal offenses and pegs them to a map, showing where they occurred in the district – does not include Giaritelli’s attack and sexual assault, she claims. “When I asked MPD in 2020 why my incident was not on its crime map, an MPD spokesman said the city only includes 1st degree felonies under its crime stats,” the reporter explained.
“That would mean that for every person robbed, assaulted, or sexually abused in anything less than egregious ways, you have not been counted into the total tally.”
“The pain you suffered was not severe enough, according to MPD’s standards.”
Giaritelli said she was then told by MPD, this week, that the crime map does include “some sex abuse charges, but not all of them.”
She noted that the crime against her is still not listed in the online database.
Giaritelli praised DC law enforcement’s immediate response to the attack, noting that they collected DNA evidence which they were able to match to a vagrant about two months later, leading to his arrest. Her attacker, however, was “immediately released from jail” by the judge handling the case, leading Giaritelli to very reasonably fear that he was back “living in a tunnel” just blocks from her apartment.
The vagrant was “arrested in five separate incidents” and allowed out of jail every single time, while he awaited trial for the sexual assault, Giaritelli said.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/14/us-news/journalist-recounts-broad-daylight-sex-assault-in-dc-says-cops-refused-to-include-attack-in-crime-stats/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
2. A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district.
The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.
The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year.
Pulliam — the former commander of the 3rd District that patrols Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights — was placed on leave with pay and told he was under investigation for questionable changes to crime data, five law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told News4.
That came about a week after he filed a complaint against Executive Assistant Chief of Police Andre Wright, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.
News4 reached out to Pulliam for comment. He denied the allegations against him and referred us to the public information officer.
Union officials said there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/
1. Washington, D.C., settled out of court with a former Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) sergeant who alleged the department’s leadership deliberately under-counted crimes, and documents involved in the case appear to validate the former officer’s claims, The Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday.
Former Sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the city in 2020 alleging the MPD deliberately downgraded felonies, such as theft and assault with a deadly weapon, to misdemeanors in order to exclude them from the city’s official crime statistics, while allegedly retaliating against her for speaking out, according to various records and documents obtained by the Free Beacon. The corporate media has insisted that D.C.’s crime problem is overblown, often citing the city’s crime data without skepticism and omitting that a top MPD officer is under investigation for allegedly manipulating crime stats.
Records show that leaders in the MPD specifically instructed officers to reclassify crimes so as to exclude them from public statistics, according to the Free Beacon.
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