New DC Arrest Stats Spell Bad News For Media’s Latest Anti-Trump Narrative
The Trump administration’s crime clampdown in partnership with local police in Washington, D.C., has focused especially on more dangerous areas of the district. Nearly half of crime-related arrests in D.C. have occurred…
The Trump administration’s crime clampdown in partnership with local police in Washington, D.C., has focused especially on more dangerous areas of the district.
Nearly half of crime-related arrests in D.C. have occurred in Wards 7 and 8 since Aug. 8, the day President Donald Trump began flooding the capital city with federal law enforcement, a White House official told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The two wards, which account for 11% of the district’s population as of 2020, accounted for almost 60% of the district’s homicides in 2024, according to an earlier Washington Post report.
The reported arrest data contradicts mediacoverageclaiming that the president’s efforts have ignored hard-hit D.C. neighborhoods.
Trump increased the number of federal law enforcement officers across D.C., deployed the National Guard in prominent areas such as