'Culture of fear' helped influence D.C. police leaders to fudge crime numbers, internal report says

'Culture of fear' helped influence D.C. police leaders to fudge crime numbers, internal report says

The full report on Metropolitan Police's crime data manipulation scheme showed the department's higher-ups reclassified hundreds of crimes as lesser offenses, as multiple police leaders pointed to a "culture of fear" created by former Chief Pamela A. Smith which motivated some officials to fix the numbers.

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