Blue cities in Trump’s crosshairs after DC police takeover
2025-08-14 12:00:21
As president Donald Trump She looks forward to eliminating crime within Washington, by sending federal law enforcement of the city’s patrols, data reveals that the country’s capital suffers from violent crimes compared to other urban areas throughout the country.
At a press conference on Monday, Trump announced that he was planning to deploy members of the National Guard in the city’s streets while controlling the MPD Police Administration (MPD) in an attempt to restore safety and fighting.
“You can be anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets,” Trump said. “You want to be able to leave your apartment or home where you live and feel safe and go to a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don’t have that now.”
The move comes at a time when the country’s capital reached one of the highest rates of theft and killing in large cities throughout the country. according to Executive order, “declaring an emergency in the province of Colombia.”
“In fact, Colombia’s boycott now has a violent crime, a murder, a theft of all 50 states, and the registration of the killing rate in 2024 from 27.54 per 100,000 population,” states.
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In 2024, Washington, DC, ranked fourth among 24 cities of the country when comparing the killing rates for every 100,000 citizens, according to a report It was conducted by the Rothsters Institute of Technology (Rit).
A White House spokesman said in a statement to the digital newspaper Fox News.
“President Trump’s bold leadership and decisive currencies will make our nation’s capital beautiful and safe again for its inhabitants and visitors from all over the world. The president’s efforts to eliminate crime is an incredible popular policy that Americans support every day.”
The study stated that St. Louis, New Orleans and Dutitwit were more murders of the individual.
Compared to the other major capital cities, the murder in Washington, DC, remained exceptionally high when placed alongside the New York City rate and the Los Angeles rate, according to Rit.
MPD immediately did not respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.
While Trump’s ability to take advantage of MPD is unique in the country’s capital, federal law enforcement can be combined into other cities with high crime rates that use approval decrees, according to Lieutenant Darren Burr Burr in NYPD.
“This comes when the federal government comes and the police station’s review,” Borsher told Fox News Digital. “They will make a series of recommendations based on what the police administration does not do.”
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Burshr pointed to the ability to enforce federal law to cooperate with the local authorities in cities that suffer from crime in an attempt to reform the administration’s response to violence.
“A lot of the activity of the work band will be the main component,” said Burshr. “Therefore, what the Federal Reserve can do is send a series of FBI, Dea or ATF agents to a specific city, and they will be part of a working group working with local police stations. It will make the resources together from both the city and the federal government to target excessive crimes committed in that particular field, whether they are killing, narration, and theft.”
Despite higher rates of average, The killing rate Inside Washington, DC, it decreased by 35 % compared to 2023, which represents the lowest violent crime rates in the city 30 years ago, according to the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice said in a press statement: “In addition to the decrease in murders, murders have decreased by 32 %,” the Ministry of Justice said in a press statement. “The robberies decreased by 39 %; armed pants decreased by 53 %; chants with a dangerous weapon fell 27 % compared to 2023 levels, with reporting the lowest number of attacks with dangerous weapons and robbery in more than 30 years.”
However, residents of the country’s capital insist that the Trump administration move is a step in the right direction.
“This is something I think has long been late.” “If you wander around the capital of our nation, which see more than 20 million visitors from all over the world every year, this is the first impression of people about the shape of the United States of America.”
Pellegrino was living In Washington, DC, For 15 years, she was frustrated by the city’s mandate, which she invites home.
“While the left says there is nothing that can be seen here, and that the White House exaggerates the reaction of this situation, it is about what people feel.” “They can say that crime statistics have decreased, some of them, but some rise, like theft operations. People do not feel safe, and something should be done to treat it.”
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Although violent crime cases inside Washington, DC, decreased when compared to 2023, accident reports involved property are still relatively stagnant or heading up.
“I think there is a great need to reduce crime in many of these big cities, such as Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC,” said Bursher.
In 2025, the property crime inside the city decreased by 4 %, according to MPD. In addition, there were already 2926 reports of car theft that was recorded this year, approaching a total of 2940 last year.
“It is time to get some smaller crimes to prevent the most violent crimes that occur in the city,” said Pellegrino. “Because, frankly, if you are wandering in the capital, even in the middle of the day [or] On the days of the week, you have to rotate your head on a roundabout. ”
Pellegrino hopes that the Trump administration’s efforts will set a standard for other cities that wrestle with crime throughout the country, while ensuring that the nation’s capital is a safe place to visit, live and work.
“These violent crimes can occur to anyone,” Pellegrino told Fox News Digital. “They do not distinguish based on your policy. Once again, whether you are a coming tourist or you have lived here, or you only work in the city, we deserve better than that. This is the United States of America. It is the greatest country on Earth. Our nation’s capital must represent something better than the standard that has been held over the past few years.”
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