The New American
While some far-left Democrats have admitted that President Trump did the right thing in federalizing Washington, D.C.’s, police and ordering the FBI and National Guard into the city to combat violent crime, the far-left, hate-Trump mainstream media quickly pounced on the crime data he used in announcing the move.
Violent crime in the nation’s capital, they say, is down almost 40 percent. But the media’s crime-fighting journalists don’t know — or did know and didn’t report — that the city fiddles with violent-crime data to exclude very violent crimes from their total.
Thus, violent crime in the city did not decrease 35 percent from 2023 to 2024, as it claims, and the media dutifully repeated. Rather, it’s dropped only 12 percent, the Daily Caller disclosed. Indeed, violent assaults jumped almost 15 percent, and since 2022, almost 40 percent.
As murders go, the city is still among the most dangerous nationally.
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Depart leave felony and aggravated assault out of there violent crime stats.
Liberals Claim DC Violent Crime Is Down With Stats Excluding Entire Categories Of Assaults | The Daily Caller https://t.co/vf9aBImpbP
— Carl Jackson (@carljacksonshow) August 12, 2025
In an executive order published yesterday, Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to oversee law enforcement in the city, with Terry Cole, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, controlling the Metropolitan Police Department.
Trump also deployed FBI agents and 800 Guardsmen to patrol streets to help fight crime.
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