How are things going across the nation regarding the massive crime that has flooded most of our nation’s largest cities? Americans have been flooded with stories, videos, statistics, and video evidence that prove the horrendous crimes committed with impunity in our largest cities. But, suddenly, a flood of pushback began in concert between Blue State governors, mayors, and leaders in several of these locations. It’s as if the rampant crime documented daily for all Americans to see has been nothing but a hyped story orchestrated by the Orange Man, of course!
Washington, D.C., saw the first federal intervention as President Trump sent several hundred National Guard members to assist the Metropolitan Police in taking criminals off the streets of our nation’s capital and capturing criminals who were walking free. More than 1,000 such criminals have been arrested in two weeks of this program. Reports of D.C. citizens are taking to the streets, calmly enjoying for the first time in a long time the city in which they live without fear of being accosted by criminals and even illegal aliens bent on criminal actions. Fear has permeated D.C. for years.
What are the REAL numbers of these criminals arrested in Washington? Those numbers are not very serious — if you believe the D.C. politicians and leaders in the Metropolitan Police. Not surprising at all are the stories coming from D.C. local media outlets who seem to be covering for their leaders.
Here’s one such story published in the last few days. Digest this, and then we’ll see a REAL story:
“On Thursday night, President Donald Trump visited a U.S. Park Police facility in southeast Washington, D.C., turning what was initially billed as the president going “on patrol” into a much less dramatic affair. He handed out pizza and hamburgers to roughly 300 law enforcement personnel, thanking them for their work in the city.
It was the latest turn in a nearly two-week odyssey since Trump declared a “public safety emergency” in the nation’s capital and invoked rarely-used statutory powers to try to override local control of policing and criminal justice in the city. The resulting fallout has included hundreds of arrests, and widespread opposition from residents, city leaders and legal experts.
The most unprecedented part of Trump’s Aug. 11 announcement had a very brief shelf life. Within about a day of naming Terry Cole, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, as “emergency police commissioner,” a federal judge took a skeptical view on whether such a move would be legal.
The Department of Justice subsequently rescinded the effort to take over the Metropolitan Police Department, but secured a concession from city leadership: full cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Under the arrangement, Cole can request police assistance, but does not have command authority over officers.
Instead, the takeover has been more of a parallel federal presence, with the administration flooding the district with national guard personnel, FBI, DEA, ICE and other federal agents. About 2,000 guardspeople have been deployed, with those numbers buoyed by National Guard troops sent from Republican-led states in recent days. Guard members have mostly been stationed at federal landmarks and high-traffic areas. Initially, guard personnel were unarmed, but on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized arming National Guard forces patrolling the city.
Roughly 500 federal agents, meanwhile, have been patrolling neighborhoods on foot, conducting checkpoints, traffic stops, and immigration enforcement sweeps.
After early reports from some people in the city’s high-crime neighborhoods that none of the government’s stated crime-fighting enthusiasm had made it there, the White House released data suggesting that half of all non-immigration arrests during the surge had been in high-crime neighborhoods. Overall there is a lack of detailed data on who is arresting whom and for what alleged crimes, but most of the police interactions so far have been citations and arrests for minor crimes, according to the local ABC affiliate.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District, has told prosecutors in her office to seek maximum charges in all D.C. arrests, except for one unexpected caveat: This week she announced her office would not prosecute gun possession cases involving shotguns or rifles, including AR-style rifles, citing constitutional concerns.
According to multiple reports, the takeover has chilled public activity in the city. Data from Open Table showed restaurant reservations in the district were down by as much as 31% a day compared to last year during the first week of the takeover, then rebounded on Monday, Aug. 18. The dip in activity was even more pronounced in immigrant neighborhoods,with one fruit seller telling The Associated Press that business is now worse than during the early days of the pandemic.
The president made a number of false and misleading claims about crime in the district when explaining the rationale for his takeover effort. Those claims have been picked apart in detail by numerous observers and publications.
D.C. does experience higher rates of homicide, carjacking and armed robbery than many other large American cities, but violent crime has declined significantly over the past year by most metrics. Trump has attacked the city and FBI crime statistics as false, citing one MPD commander who has been accused of manipulating statistics. But the department has countered that even if true, such an effort would not implicate city-wide data — a conclusion shared by at least one crime data expert.
Many residents of the district do have concerns about crime, and have expressed general support for efforts to bring crime rates down, but Trump’s unilateral takeover has been extraordinarily unpopular. According to polling released this week, nearly 80% of residents either somewhat or strongly oppose the efforts. The Washington Post-Schar School poll also found that residents feel less safe under the takeover than before it.
Immigration enforcement has made up a large part of the policing surge. As of Tuesday, nearly half of the arrests “since the start of operations” in D.C. have been of undocumented people, an administration spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal. That has been largely driven by ICE targeting locations like bilingual daycare centers, Spanish-speaking churches and traffic stops to check the citizenship status of delivery drivers on mopeds.
Some have worried from the start that Trump’s efforts in D.C. might be a dress rehearsal for efforts in other Democratic-led cities — indeed, Trump vaguely threatened as much. Others have poured cold water on that suspicion, pointing out that the president has unique legal authority over the district that doesn’t translate elsewhere.
Increasingly, it seems as though both camps may be proven right. The president’s control over D.C. is undeniably a special case, and the effort to take over the police department there in earnest lasted barely a day. But Democratic leaders across the country worry that elements of the immigration enforcement surge, and the administration’s successful efforts at bypassing the district’s “sanctuary city” protections, may be predictive of what the feds will try elsewhere, Politico reported this week.
For many commentators, that’s always been the point. They argue that the surge was never about crime, but about Trump projecting dominance — particularly over cities that have long resisted his agenda.
“The deployment of out-of-state National Guard troops and more federal agents onto D.C. streets is a brazen abuse of power meant to intimidate and create fear in the nation’s capital,” said Monica Hopkins, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia. “This is an unnecessary overstep to micromanage D.C. under a phony emergency, causing real harm to residents and visitors — all to advance the Trump administration’s political agenda.”
Let’s see what a REAL media outlet had to say when reporting from the same place about the same things happening at the same time in Washington, D.C.:
Arrests under President Donald Trump’s federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., have blown past 1,000 as the nation’s capital marked its 12th consecutive day without a homicide, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Monday.
Pirro said that on Sunday alone, there were 86 arrests and 10 illegal guns seized, bringing the totals to 1,007 arrests and 111 guns taken off the streets.
“What does that mean? They can’t be used to shoot people, to kill people,” Pirro said Monday on “Fox & Friends,” referring to the weapons seizures. “And on top of all of that, we’ve got a government now where the people in D.C. are feeling safer. They know that there is a president who’s looking to protect them.”
Pirro credited Trump’s deployment of federal agencies with reshaping public safety in the capital.
“D.C. was one of the most violent cities in the world, but for President Trump coming in and bringing in our federal partners… we’ve got a unified force of people and law enforcement who were going into the crime-ridden areas and making a difference,” she said.
“And I’ll tell you why it’s making a difference. Today is the 12th day without a homicide in Washington, D.C. So far this year, we’ve had 101 homicides. But for the last 12 days, nothing. Yep. Policing works.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said 26 of Sunday’s arrests came from FBI operations, including five drug seizures.
“Keep getting after it,” Patel posted on X.
Pirro also took aim at Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, who claimed that only nine arrests had been made under the federal crackdown.
Johnson said he would push back against reports that Trump is considering deploying the same type of operation in Chicago, calling the Trump administration’s efforts “uncoordinated, uncalled-for and unsound.”
Pirro, however, said the rollout in Washington was working and serving as a deterrent for criminals.
“The good news is that they’re afraid to commit crimes when you have increased law enforcement people in the community, especially in the crime-ridden community, they’re saying thank you,” Pirro said. “They’re afraid to commit crimes because they know that being accountable – Johnson ought to hope that the president comes there to clean up the mess in Chicago.”
Chicago, home to about 2.7 million people, has topped the nation in homicides for 13 straight years, logging 573 in 2024 alone, according to the city’s own figures.
Trump on Monday signed an executive order targeting Washington, D.C., that instructs police to charge suspects with federal crimes and hold them in federal custody to avoid cashless bail.
The president also signed an executive order that seeks to end cashless bail by threatening to revoke federal funding from jurisdictions that use it.
The updated D.C. crime statistics come as National Guard units deployed in Washington, D.C., have been authorized to carry firearms, the D.C. National Guard said – and some troops have already been observed armed on patrol.
Trump activated the National Guard in Washington, D.C., earlier this month as part of an effort to curb violent crime, sweeping up gang members, robbery suspects, and immigration violators.
The operation began quietly Aug. 7 with the launch of the “Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful” task force that Trump created in March through an executive order.
The president escalated it on Aug. 11 by temporarily seizing federal control of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under emergency powers in the Home Rule Act, the first such move in U.S. history.
Along with the National Guard and FBI, the crackdown has brought in a wide range of federal agencies – including the U.S. Marshals, ATF, DEA, Capitol Police and Park Police – to work alongside local officers in crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Story by FOX News
Conclusion
OK: You tell me which of the two stories tells the actual story of crime in Washington, D.C. Which story parallels what Americans have watched growing for the past five years regarding criminality across the nation, but specifically in our nation’s capital and other similar large cities?
Two things have led to this rampant and rapid growth of crime in our large cities: a flood of millions of illegal aliens who find open arms and excellent cash benefits for illegals that rush to their “Promised Land:” the United States; and the obvious “winks” of Blue State Governors and Blue State city Mayors who mysteriously decided in unison to not just allow criminality to escalate overnight, but to welcome and applaud those who accepted their invitation to “Come anyway you can, go anywhere you want in the U.S., and we’ll not only welcome you but finance your stay in every way you want.”
I thought our nation was founded on the Rule of Law, equal justice under the law, and accountability for all who violate laws of any kind.
I’ll close with this thought: What is the objective of Democrat Party leaders at every level across the U.S., rushing criminals and their criminality into these Democrat controlled states and cities?
Tomorrow, we’ll publish another chapter of this novel with more unfathomable wrongdoing revealed as criminality is stealthily taking over America.
Oh, I thought it was Donald Trump who is “destroying our Democracy!”
