The Crime Stats Aren’t Just Faked…They Leave Victims Behind

There are people behind the statistics you see…and the statistics you don’t.

With all the storm and strife about crime in D.C.–the Democrats insist that crime is an illusion and everybody rides unicorns in the District–it’s easy to forget that crime statistics are not just numbers. Every red dot on a map or number in a chart represents a life that was ended, or at least upended. 

“According to the Media Research Center (@TheMRC) and a study they did this week,” @RobFinnertyUSA highlighted on his Wednesday night @Newsmax show, “CNN and MSNBC cited those fake numbers 73 times over a 24 hour period, meaning millions of people were told a lie for an entire… pic.twitter.com/C5WneBBKLI

— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) August 14, 2025

By now, if you read beyond the Pravda Media, you know that the Washington, D.C. police were faking numbers. Or, to be fair to line officers, it was the top brass. Pravda keeps repeating the numbers they all know are false, because Orange Man Bad. 

What we rarely think about, though, is who those red dots on the map–or those left off, intentionally–represent. They are real people. 

Journalist recounts harrowing broad-daylight sex assault in DC – says cops refused to include the attack in crime stats https://t.co/XtJjG5Jx5w pic.twitter.com/vrn65Rsyaa

— New York Post (@nypost) August 15, 2025

People Anna Giaritelli, who knows full well that the police in D.C. care more about looking good than doing good. She was sexually assaulted, and the police buried the incident. 

Five years ago, I was violently attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., by a homeless man. He served time in federal prison for what he did to me. But if you look for evidence that the attack happened in the @DCPoliceDept crime statistics, you won’t…

— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025

Anna is a reporter for the Washington Examiner. There was no question that the incident occurred, because the perpetrator was sentenced to hard time. But that didn’t matter when it came to reporting the crime. The stats, not the city, have to look good. 

The extent of crime in D.C. has been debated since Trump announced on Monday that he would take federal action to crack down on DC crime.

But if the public wants to have an honest conversation about crime in D.C., the @DCPoliceDept will first have to be honest about how…

— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025

A national debate, featuring the President of the United States vs the entire Democratic Party–backed by Pravda Media–is being conducted based on a lie. And while the media keeps calling Trump a liar, that is a projection of the highest order. The DC police statistics lie, the media knows they are a lie, and they keep repeating because Orange Man Bad. 

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. 

MPD did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. 

Trump on Monday claimed that DC’s crime statistics – showing violent offenses down about 26% compared to last year –  were “phony” and promised that Attorney General Pam Bondi will be “looking into that.”

The president further noted that a DC police commander was suspended last month for allegedly falsifying crime data to make trends appear more positive.

People like Anna have been turned into political pawns. Their names are unknown, their faces ignored, and their pain wiped away by an uncaring elite. 

This is where we are in our country. The people charged with the safety and security of the citizens focus solely on their own power. They literally hide hideous crimes for no other reason than to score political points. They catch and release criminals, downgrade the severity of crimes to keep them off the books, and justify it all by claiming they are saving the country. 

It pains me that I have become so cynical about the people entrusted with guiding the Republic, but the Republic cannot be saved until we recognize the peril it is in and why so. 

There was a time when the great danger that America faced was that the Democrats were too optimistic–the Jimmy Carter fallacy. Would that it were so today. The current crop of elites is indifferent to the suffering of ordinary people if it doesn’t serve their purposes. 

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