We present this thread with limited commentary because Anna Giaritelli's story is so troubling and damning of the D.C. police force, it truly speaks for itself. On that note, please send this to any pundit, anchor, Democrat, or Lefty you see spewing the flat-out LIE that violent crime is down 30% in that city.
Take a look - it's long, but worth your time.
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— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
This is the most important story I’ve told. It’s my story. I’ve waited five years to share it, and I’m ready now.
I’m Anna Giaritelli. The DC police are covering up crime. I know because they covered up what happened to me.https://t.co/yk5N7j7XQ9
They covered it up.
Five years ago, I was violently attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., by a homeless man. He served time in federal prison for what he did to me. But if you look for evidence that the attack happened in the @DCPoliceDept crime statistics, you won’t…
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
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... find it.
Almost as if it had been hidden away for political gain.
The truth of what happened to me and the D.C. government’s role in it is as much a public scandal as it is a personal trauma.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
D.C. police covered up the unspeakable wrong that the stranger did to me. Even though a judge sentenced my attacker to hard time in prison, D.C. police…
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... leadership would rather deceive the public and appear less dangerous than list mine and countless other sexual assaults on their website.
We're shocked.
Ok, not really.
The extent of crime in D.C. has been debated since Trump announced on Monday that he would take federal action to crack down on DC crime.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
But if the public wants to have an honest conversation about crime in D.C., the @DCPoliceDept will first have to be honest about how…
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... how prevalent crime is. Without MPD’s honesty about the crimes that it has chosen to hide from its public-facing stats page, the @WhiteHouse cannot get an accurate picture of how bad the problem actually is and adequately fix it.
Keep going.
I was a Washingtonian for seven years. I was saving up money to buy a condo and planned to spend the next few decades in Washington, the intersection of politics and media.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
D.C.’s crime problem was something you lived with. You took Ubers and Lyfts, told others if you were…
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... walking after dark so they knew when you were home, and knew to be aware of your surroundings, almost to the point of paranoia. (Ladies?)
On a Saturday morning in 2020, I walked out of my apartment on Capitol Hill to mail a package at a post office several blocks from the U.S. Capitol. I put on my sweatshirt and sweatpants then headed out the door.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
I never made it to the post office.https://t.co/yk5N7j7XQ9
Meep.
Just one block from my apartment building’s entrance, I was attacked by a large man well over six feet tall. He charged at me for a reason that I still do not understand. In broad daylight and on well-traveled 2nd Street NE next to Union Station, I fought to get away as he…
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
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... sexually assaulted me. If it had not been for others in the vicinity, including a construction worker named Donny who heard my screaming and ran to my rescue, I don’t know if I would be here today.
Awful.
Why am I writing this op-ed?
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
Despite my background working with federal law enforcement, it was only through my experience as a victim that I learned personally of two ways that D.C. police and the courts fail the public. I share those now with the hope that they inform the…
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... the public and leaders to improve how crime is handled and prevented.
We're doing our part to share it as well.
My attacker was arrested on the street months later, charged, and pleaded guilty to a sex abuse charge nearly two years later.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
MPD’s “Crime Cards” online statistics page omits mentioning it, though. Do you know what that communicates to a victim? How invalidating that is?…
Keep in mind who has been insisting crime is down in DC as you read the rest of this.
When I asked @DCPoliceDept in 2020 why my incident was not on its crime map, an MPD spokesman said the city only includes 1st degree felonies under its crime stats. That would mean that for every person robbed, assaulted, or sexually abused in anything less than egregious ways,…
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
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... you have not been counted into the total tally. The pain you suffered was not severe enough, according to MPD’s standards.
They are protecting the criminal to protect themselves.
In a follow-up email to @DCPoliceDept this week, an MPD spokesperson stated after a back-and-forth exchange that the map includes some sex abuse charges, but not all of them. In my case, my attacker’s crime against me, which landed him in prison, is still not listed.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
The 54 sex… pic.twitter.com/YmKOMnDVfl
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... the abuses listed on https://crimecards.dc.gov over the past year are a lie. There are COUNTLESS more sex abuse victims who have cases moving forward that the DC police have refused to tally in their counts.
Holy cow.
The D.C. Police did do something right. The day of my attack, the police collected my clothes for DNA evidence. About two months later, they contacted me to say they had had a match to the DNA of a homeless man who had been previously arrested.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
Police arrested him, but he was…
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... immediately released from jail by the judge who presided over the case.
Here I was, a single woman who was attacked a block from my front door. Not jailing him until trial felt like a death sentence. How could I leave my home with him out on the streets, living in a tunnel a few blocks from where I lived?
Immediately released from jail. Read that again.
Trial proceedings were set to begin in the fall of 2020, but amid the George Floyd riots in downtown Washington, it was delayed until early 2021.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
Then, the early 2021 start was delayed until the end of 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s office assured me it was not because the federal…
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... prosecutors were busy bringing hundreds of cases against January 6th offenders.
Liars.
The man who attacked me was arrested by diligent DC police officers on 5 separate incidents as we waited to go to trial.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
But after every arrest, the judge permitted his immediate release, even when he was caught in public with a machete.https://t.co/yk5N7j7XQ9
Caught in pubic WITH A MACHETE.
I have thought about these failures by the police and courts for the past five years, but I have not been sure how to bring attention to them. Right now, we have a rare chance to bring meaningful change.
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, 2025
I have shared my story. Will anyone hear it and respond?
Please share my…
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... story. Awareness to the problems can bring change.
We have no words for this ...
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