And it is incredible. As most of you know, there were some issues with the stats from MPD, which actually, as we reflect on it, make it clear that Crime is down more than we even thought because crime was really higher than they were actually reporting. So downward classification of certain crimes in the daily crime report, or the DCR, as it's called, did not reflect the true level of violent crime that was going on in the District. (02:49–02:58)
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