D.C. Crime

Democrats are attacking Trump for taking action to clean up Washington by federalizing the city's law enforcement, a move the D.C. police themselves support and the mayor doesn't oppose. Apparently, some on the left think it's racist to fight crime, which says a lot about who they think the criminals must be. Either that, or they think that black and brown people should be left alone to pillage, rape, and murder.

One of their arguments is that violent crime in D.C. has declined by 30% so there's no need to bring in the National Guard, but what they don't say is that the former police commander is under investigation for falsifying crime data.

In any case, what are the facts about crime in D.C.? Here are some from the White House via Katie Pavlich at Townhall.com:

• In 2024, Washington, D.C. saw a homicide rate of 27.3 per 100,000 residents. That was the fourth-highest homicide rate in the country — nearly six times higher than New York City and also higher than Atlanta, Chicago, and Compton.
• If Washington, D.C. was a state, it would have the highest homicide rate of any state in the nation. It's murder rate is roughly three times higher than that of Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than that of communist-run Havana, Cuba.
• The number of juveniles arrested in Washington, D.C. has gone up each year since 2020 — many of whom have had prior arrests for violent crimes.
• There were 29,348 crimes reported in Washington, D.C. last year, including 3,469 violent offenses, 1,026 assaults with a dangerous weapon, 2,113 robberies, and 5,139 motor vehicle thefts.
• So far in 2025, there have already been nearly 1,600 violent crimes and nearly 16,000 total crimes reported in Washington, D.C.
• There have been nearly 100 homicides, including the fatal shootings of innocent civilians like three-year-old Honesty Cheadle and 21-year-old Capitol Hill intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym.
• Vehicle theft in Washington, D.C. is more than three times the national average — ranking it among the most dangerous cities in the world. Carjackings increased 547% between 2018 and 2023. In 2024, there were triple the number of carjackings compared to 2018.

What President Trump is doing is perfectly legal, so one can only assume that those who oppose him on this are concerned about...what? Are they concerned that D.C. will be made safer and cleaner? Are they concerned that it'll be a bad look if more minorities are incarcerated?

One thing they should be concerned about is that once again they're going to find themselves on the wrong side of an 80/20 issue, but that doesn't seem to bother them. Maybe the Democrats' real concern is that they fear people will see that Republicans get things done that the people want done while Democrats do nothing but sit on their hands and fuss over pronouns.