The D.C. police department has never been subject to an independent audit. Now its executives are scrambling to account for missing money from fines that was supposed to help victims of serious crimes in the District.

The District’s finances are reviewed annually in the legally mandated Comprehensive Annual Financial Review. That’s the same audit that missed the $48 million property tax scam organized by Harriette Walters, a multimillion-dollar bid-rigging scandal in the technology office, and millions in fraud and waste in the city’s public schools.