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  "textContent": "D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser responded Wednesday to a growing scandal inside the Metropolitan Police Department could lead to the firing of more than a dozen senior officials accused of manipulating crime data.\n\nAt issue are 13 senior Metropolitan Police Department officials who have been placed on administrative leave as part of an internal investigation into how crime statistics were handled.\n\nThe department is reviewing whether disciplinary action, including possible termination, is warranted.\n\nThose under review include Executive Assistant Chief Andre Wright, who was placed on leave earlier this year.\n\nOfficials have not said who directed any changes under investigation.\n\n\"At some point, I guess MPD will talk about the categories of crime that experienced changes and what's going to be really key in I suspect is in all of these recommendations for termination is if this is deliberate, if it is meant to make the official look good and not show what's actually happening. There are repercussions for that,\" said DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. \"We will look for systematic problems that, in my estimation, should have caught any individual problems. And I am hopeful that that will be laid out in the inspector general's report.\"\n\n\"We've been here for six years now. We've been short 800 police officers and we've been told repeatedly, 'well, crime is down. When crime is down you don't need to fix that gap,' but crime has not been down not at all and these 35 and 40 percent drops in crime categories that they've been reporting we're now learning have been a lie,\" said Greggory Pemberton from the D.C. Police Union. \"This crime stat manipulation, as ubiquitous and widespread as it was, it's corruption within the police department, and it needs to be rooted out. And anyone who's responsible needs to be held accountable. And most importantly, moving forward, we need to make sure that this doesn't happen again.\"\n\n\nThe investigation is being reviewed by the House Oversight Committee and the D.C. Office of the Inspector General.\n\nOfficials say the process of reviewing potential disciplinary action could take several months.",
  "title": "Bowser responds to growing MPD crime data scandal"
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