“We can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we’re all experiencing it firsthand, working and living down here,” the ABC News anchor said.

Crime data expert Jeff Asher, co-founder of the firm AH Datalytics, wrote in a blog post Monday: “The bottom line is that violent crime in DC is currently declining and the city’s reported ...

• DC crackdown: President Donald Trump announced he is placing the Washington, DC, police department “under direct federal control” and deploying National Guard troops to the nation’s ...

As part of what Trump called his DC crime crackdown, approximately 800 National Guard troops and 500 federal law enforcement officers were deployed in the capital.

But violence in the capital is actually falling. After a spike in 2023, violent crime declined in 2024 and has declined again so far in 2025. Washington has been a relatively high-crime place for ...

Mother of slain congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym praises Trump's efforts to address Washington, D.C. crime after son's unsolved murder in June.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called President Trump’s sweeping crime-fighting takeover in the District on Monday “unsettling and unprecedented” but said she wasn’t surprised.

Crime is down, and many tents are gone — but much of Washington, D.C. remains on edge as Trump launches a sweeping federal response to lingering urban disorder.

The political — and historical — context of Trump’s D.C. crackdown Analysis by Jonathan Allen Donald Trump isn’t the first president to deploy troops and federal agents in the name of ...

FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime Statistics rebut Trump’s claims about violence crime in DC.

The DC Police Union announced on Monday that it is backing President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat crime in Washington, D. C.