President Donald Trump will maintain a information convention Monday that he stated “will, basically, cease violent crime in Washington, D.C.”
The president promoted the information convention in a number of posts on his social media platform and on Sunday posted that it could “even be about Cleanliness and the Basic Bodily Renovation and Situation of our as soon as lovely and nicely maintained Capital.”
In a separate put up, Trump stated the homeless ought to depart D.C., accompanied by photographs of homeless encampments alongside his route from the White Home to his golf membership in Sterling, Virginia.
“The Homeless have to maneuver out, IMMEDIATELY. We provides you with locations to remain, however FAR from the Capital,” Trump wrote. “The Criminals, you don’t have to maneuver out. We’re going to place you in jail the place you belong.”
The information convention comes after Trump final week ordered a rise in legislation enforcement as a part of an govt order he signed in March to “Make the District of Columbia Secure and Stunning.”
Opposite to the president’s declare, preliminary year-to-date crime comparisons from Washington’s Metropolitan Police Division present that total crime in D.C. has decreased by 7% since final yr, with violent crime down 26% and property crime diminished by 5%.
A White Home official stated the legislation enforcement effort a “complete of presidency method to enhance total public security” and stated that legislation enforcement will “be centered on excessive site visitors vacationer areas and different recognized hotspots.”
The official added that federal officers “can be recognized, in marked models, and extremely seen.”
Trump stated Sunday that he has given D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser a possibility to scale back crime charges however she has failed to try this.
“The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is an efficient one that has tried, however she has been given many possibilities, and the Crime Numbers worsen, and the Metropolis solely will get dirtier and fewer engaging. The American Public isn’t going to place up with it any longer,” he claimed.
A U.S. Capitol Police workplace enters his automotive parked on the sidewalk close to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 8, 2025. President Donald Trump ordered on Aug. 7 to make use of federal legislation enforcement to fight crime in Washington.
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Bowser stated Sunday that Washington has spent the final two years driving down violent crime, “driving it right down to a 30 yr low, actually.”
“It’s true that we had a horrible spike in crime in 2023, however this isn’t 2023, that is 2025 and we have completed that by working with the neighborhood, working with the police, working with our prosecutors, and, actually, working with the federal authorities,” Bowser advised MSNBC.
On Saturday, Trump stated the nation’s capital has turn into “some of the harmful cities wherever within the World.”
Final week he threatened to deploy the Nationwide Guard to D.C. and, as he has on a number of events since he was inaugurated in January, prompt that there must be a federal takeover.
That decision got here after Edward Coristine, a former Division of Authorities Effectivity worker, was crushed after he tried to interrupt up a carjacking in D.C.
“So whether or not you name it federalize or what. And that additionally contains the graffiti that you simply see, the papers far and wide, the roads which might be in unhealthy form, the medians which might be falling down, the median in between roads, it is falling down,” Trump stated within the Oval Workplace on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump speaks within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, Aug. 6, 2025.
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“We will beautify the town. We will make it lovely. And, what a disgrace. Price of crime, the speed of muggings, killings and the whole lot else. We’re not going to let it. And that features bringing within the Nationwide Guard, perhaps in a short time.”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in a press release final week, “Washington, DC is an incredible metropolis, however it has been stricken by violent crime for a lot too lengthy. President Trump has directed an elevated presence of federal legislation enforcement to guard harmless residents. There can be no protected harbor for violent criminals in D.C. President Trump is dedicated to creating our Nation’s capital safer for its residents, lawmakers, and guests from all around the globe.”
The seven-day legislation enforcement effort is being led by the U.S. Park Police however contains personnel from the Metro Transit Police Division, Amtrak Police Division, United States Capitol Police, Washington’s Metro Police Division, Homeland Safety Investigations, Federal Protecting Service, Enforcement and Elimination Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, United States Marshals Service, United States Lawyer’s Workplace-District of Columbia, Division of Inside, Pre-Trial Companies Company, Court docket Companies and Offender Supervision Company (CSOSA), the White Home official stated.
