Blue cities in Trump’s Crosshairs after DC Police Takeover

While President Donald Trump wants to fight crime in Washington, DC, by sending in federal law enforcement to patrol the city, data that the capital of the country is plagued by violent crime compared to other metropolitan areas throughout the country.

In a press conference on Monday, Trump announced that he intends to use members of the National Guard in the streets of the city while he takes control of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in an attempt to repair safety and fight violence.

“You can be everything you want, but you want to have safety on the street,” said Trump. “You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and enter a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don’t have that now.”

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The move comes as the capital of the nation “on average one of the highest theft and murder figures of large cities throughout the country”, ” according to An executive order, “explain an emergency of an emergency in the district or columbia.”

“Indeed, the District of Columbia now has a higher violent crime, murder and theft than all 50 states, with a murder rate in 2024 of 27.54 per 100,000 inhabitants,” the order says.

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In 2024, Washington DC became fourth under 24 of the cities of the country in comparing murder figures per 100,000 civilians, according to a report Led by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIJ).

“The recent increase in federal law enforcement officers in Washington, DC, has already stopped criminals, the distribution of fatal drugs and the violent use of stolen pistols,” said a White House spokesperson to Fox News Digital.

“The daring leadership and the decisive action of President Trump will again make the capital of our nation beautiful and safe for its inhabitants and visitors to the whole world. The efforts of the president to combat crime is an incredibly popular policy that support everyday Americans.”

Agents of Drug Enforcement Administration Patrille near the Washington Monument on the National Mall on August 11, 2025, in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

St. Louis, New Orleans and Detroit were good for more murders per head of the population, the study reported.

In comparison with other major metropolitan cities, the murder percentage of Washington DC remained exceptionally high when it was placed next to the rate of New York City and Los Angeles, according to ride.

MPD did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request to comment.

Although Trump’s ability to use the MPD is unique for the capital of the country, the federal law enforcement could integrate into other cities with high crime rates with the help of consent decisions, according to former NYPD Lt. Darrin Porcher.

“That is when the federal government arrives and they assess a police department,” Porcher told Fox News Digital. “And they will make a series of recommendations based on what the police are not.”

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NYPD officers arrest a demonstrator during an anti-season protest outside 26 Federal Plaza Building in New York City 10 June 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty images)

Porcher pointed to the assets of federal law enforcement to collaborate with local authorities in in an attempt to reform the response of a department to violence.

“A lot of activity of the task force would be the most important component,” said Porcher. “So what the FBI can do is to send a series of FBI, DEA or ATF agents to a certain city, and they would be part of a Task Force that works with the localized police services. The resources would bridge together from both the city and the federal government to focus on the excess crimes that are brewed in that specific, blew, blew, caught over, caught over, blew overall, overhang, caught, overhang, overhang, cudded, birched, or in the field of specific, birch, or the area of specific, birching, or in that field, caught, or in that-specific area. Increase. “

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Despite the higher than average rates, the murder percentage in Washington, DC, decreased by 35% compared to 2023, which marked the lowest violent crime figures that the city saw in 30 years, according to the Ministry of Justice.

“In addition to the total reduction of violent crime, murders have fallen by 32%,” the Doj said in a press release. “Robberies have fallen by 39%; armed carjackings fall by 53%; attacks with a dangerous weapon fall by 27%compared to 2023 levels, with the district reporting the least attacks with dangerous weapons and burglaries in more than 30 years.”

Residents in the capital of the country, however, stand out that the Trump government is a step in the right direction.

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President Donald Trump, in addition to Defense Minister Pete Hegseeth and attorney -general Pam Bondi, speaks during a press conference to discuss crime in Washington, DC in the Brvely Press Briefing Room in the White House on August 11, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds /AFP via Getty images)

“This is something I think that has long been late,” Jenn Pellegrino, chief spokesperson for America First Policy Institute, told Fox News Digital. “If you walk around the capital of our nation, who sees more than 20 million visitors from all over the world every year, this is the first impression of many people about what the United States of America look like.”

Pellegrino has been living in Washington for 15 years, DC and is discouraged by the state of the city she calls home.

“While the left says that there is nothing to see here, that the White House responds exaggerated to this situation, it’s about how people feel,” Pellegrino said. “They can say that the crime statistics are no longer what some are, but some rise, like carjacking. People don’t feel safe and something has to be done to tackle that.”

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Although cases of violent crime in Washington, DC are compared to 2023, reports of incidents with regard to real estate continue to stagnate relatively well or trending upwards.

“I think there is an important need for crime reduction in many of these big cities, such as Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC,” said Porcher.

In 2025 the property in the city will be 4%decrease, according to the MPD. In addition, there have been 2,926 reports of motorcycle theft this year and the total of 2,940 from last year was approaching.

“It’s time to get difficult for some of the smaller crimes to prevent the more violent crimes going on in the city,” said Pellegrino. ‘Because, to be honest, if you walk around DC, even in the middle of the day [or] A weekday you must have your head on a swing. ”

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Pellegrino hopes that the efforts of the Trump government will set a standard for other cities that struggle with crime throughout the country, while the capital of the nation is a safe place to visit, live and work.

“These violent crimes can happen to anyone,” Pellegrino told Fox News Digital. “They do not discriminate on the basis of your politics. And again, whether you are a tourist who comes to visit whether you are someone who lives here, whether you are working in the city, we earn better than that. These are the United States of America. It is the largest country on earth. Our capital should represent something better than the standard it has kept in recent years.”