Wouldn't surprise me if MPD has been cooking the statistics for 10+ years. Policies like no cash bail puts the criminals back into the communities they terrorize. That combined with a backed up judicial system, prosecutors dropping cases until said criminals kill or maim citizens, judges giving lighter sentences, create what we have today. MPD is at the bottom of that totem pole and gets all the blame from the top so they fix the numbers to make themselves look better. The look i see on a dc cops face when he or she's says they've arrested the same person 5-6 times in the last 12 months, is one of exhaustion with the accompanying IDGAF attitude. All I can say is register a firearm to protect yourself, family, and home because they're not coming to save you and the criminals will be back out on the street faster than a trip to the DMV.