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(NewsNation) — The U.S. Marshals Service is offering $500 for tips starring to arrests successful Washington, D.C. — the latest effort from the Trump administration to ramp up an already increasing arrest rate successful the nation's capital.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted a flyer for the reward programme connected societal media Wednesday, requesting tips successful what it called a "public information surge" successful the nation's capital.
Following the posted nexus leads to a website to study fugitives, missing persons, threats against national judges and more. It besides prompts the idiosyncratic for accusation connected imaginable suspects.
Law enforcement information shows the fig of radical arrested each time successful Washington has accrued by astir 20% since the authorities began sending successful a surge of national agents, the Associated Press reported.
According to White House officials, astatine slightest 550 radical person been arrested successful D.C. since the crackdown started, including 3 known pack members.
Gady Serralta, manager of the U.S. Marshals Service, told NewsNation's "CUOMO" connected Wednesday that President Donald Trump's determination to nonstop successful the National Guard and prehend power of D.C. police has led to tangible results.
"We've picked up 5 murderers. We've picked up 2 enactment offenders," Serralta said. "And that's going to ramp up now."
DC politician responds to DOJ probe into transgression rates
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser connected Wednesday said she and different metropolis officials program to afloat comply with immoderate national investigations.
Her comments came arsenic the Justice Department launched an probe into whether officials astatine the Metropolitan Police Department falsified transgression data, according to 2 people familiar with the probe.
City leaders person repeatedly pointed to that data, which puts convulsive transgression astatine a 30-year low in the nation’s capital, to reason against Trump’s national takeover.
As helium deployed hundreds of National Guard members to the area, Trump continually claimed convulsive transgression was getting worse successful D.C. — contempt information from the territory saying otherwise.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
