A political firestorm erupted this week after a Washington, D.C., internal police email appeared to reprimand rank-and-file officers for body camera footage allegedly showing them "finess[ing]" their way out of making arrests on reasonable grounds.The news comes as the Trump administration cracks down on crime in the District of Columbia at the federal level. While crime rates have steadily declined from a peak in 2023, the nation's capital continues to suffer per-capita violent crime at higher rates than the national average, according to FBI data.The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed...
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