This Sounds Familiar

Imagine if we had this sort of accountability here in Chicago:

• The [Washington DC] Metropolitan Police Department’s internal investigators have sustained accusations against at least 15 high-ranking police officials—including captains, commanders, and assistant chiefs—in a sweeping investigation into crime statistics, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

  [...] One of IAD’s findings, according to a source, is that Second District Cmdr. Tatjana Savoy directed two captains to reclassify as many as 390 thefts as taking property without a right, a misdemeanor. Thefts can be classified as felonies or misdemeanors depending on the circumstances, but they are all reported in D.C.’s daily crime report and to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program. Reclassifying thefts as taking property could give the appearance that the crime is decreasing. Total thefts dropped by 10 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to statistics posted to MPD’s website.

The article devolves after pointing out what the NYPD and CPD did for years - killing crime on paper, downgrading and reclassifying everything that didn't involve dead body, though there was a bit of that going on at times, too.

No one seems to have gone to prison, so it will likely continue in one form or another.