Overview

• President Trump has assumed federal control of the Metropolitan Police Department, sent 120 FBI agents into patrols and prepared about 800 National Guard troops for activation in Washington, D.C.
• City reports show a 25% drop in violent crime and a 26% decline in robberies during the first half of 2025 even as carjackings remain roughly three times higher than before the pandemic.
• A Council on Criminal Justice study found D.C. experienced a 38% increase in violent-crime lethality between 2018 and 2024, raising concerns that fewer incidents are more deadly.
• The D.C. police union alleges supervisors manipulated crime data this summer to exaggerate declines, intensifying debates over the administration’s emergency authority.
• U.S. attorneys Ed Martin and Jeanine Pirro have vowed to impose tougher sentences on offenders under 18 and back legislative changes to expand concealed-carry rights for permit holders.