“… Every day, the White House issues a summary of the previous night’s operation, including the number of arrests and some examples of arresting causes. Numbers of illegal firearms seized (68 overall as of Tuesday morning) and encampments cleared (48 overall) are included, too.
The Washington Post repeatedly reached out to the White House for the arrest records undergirding their statistics and has not received answers to questions about the specific details of each arrest.
[Feds won’t respond, DC police say White House has to provide the data, and then pointed to Mayor for DC police specific data but mayor doesn’t have arrest data]
… As a result, there’s a black hole instead of the usually readily accessible basic information surrounding an arrest. For example, when D.C. police make an arrest there will be a “Public Incident Report” — a public document that includes, among other things: the offense and its location and date and a short description of what happened. D.C. police continue to provide the reports for crimes in which local officers made the arrest, but refuse to answer questions about many of the arrests made by the multiagency federal task force teams, despite D.C. police officers being embedded within many of them.
… Between Aug. 7 and 19 last year, D.C. police alone made 667 arrests. It is unclear whether the numbers the White House is releasing each day include any D.C. police arrests or are solely limited to arrests made by federal officers.
… Federal officers have been seen around the District wearing masks while making arrests and driving off in unmarked cars — making it difficult to discern which agency could provide information about who was arrested, where they were taken and why.…”