Democrats and their media allies insist Washington D.C. is getting safer, but a veteran officer’s lawsuit reveals a disturbing D.C. crime cover-up. MPD sergeant Carlos Bundy, a 28-year veteran, alleged police leaders have been “mis-categorizing deaths as something other than a homicide in order to keep the District’s homicide numbers down.” He said the MPD “purposely misled the public about the homicide rates in the District of Columbia” by “misclassifying unnatural deaths (for example, by labeling them as accidents).”
Bundy’s claims go beyond paperwork errors. His lawsuit cites cases where autopsies identified homicide, but the department declared the deaths “accidental” or “undetermined.” In one instance, a man killed by blunt force trauma was written off as an accident, despite video and cell phone evidence pointing to a suspect. In another, a woman strangled along a bike trail was initially listed as “unknown cause,” losing valuable time for investigators while her killer walked free.
Other officers back Bundy up. Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou accused leadership of attempting to “distort crime statistics” by downgrading felonies to misdemeanors. These revelations support President Donald Trump’s charge that D.C. leaders pushed “Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety.”
Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Hakeem Jeffries point to reported “drops” in crime to oppose federal help. But Bundy’s evidence shows the real danger isn’t too much policing—it’s fake statistics leaving killers on the streets. As Bundy warned, misclassifying homicides presents a “danger to public safety” by “allowing murderers to remain on the street.”
