DC Crime Forum Cancelled Amid Fallout Over Jeanine Pirro's Vandalism Case

A meeting intended to review violent-crime trends in Washington, D.C., was abruptly cancelled by the city’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, which said it had no further information to share. The event, originally slated to feature interim police chief Jeffery Carroll, was to include input from activist group Free D.C., whose co-founder Alex Dodds accused officials of ignoring resident concerns. The cancellation occurs as former a host at one outlet, now a U.S. Attorney for D.C., struggles to retain her position after Donald Trump publicly rebuked her for abandoning a case involving alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

A recent inspector-general review found long-standing deficiencies in the police department’s crime-reporting processes. Meanwhile, Pirro’s office sought to detain Melissa Farris over alleged spray-painting of the World War II Memorial, but a magistrate judge denied the request. No official link between the two issues has been confirmed.