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(NewsNation) — The Justice Department is investigating whether officials astatine the Metropolitan Police Department successful Washington, D.C., falsified transgression data, according to 2 radical familiar with the probe.
City leaders person repeatedly pointed to that data, which puts convulsive transgression astatine a 30-year low successful the nation's capital, to reason against President Donald Trump's national takeover.
As Trump deployed hundreds of National Guard members, helium continually claimed convulsive transgression was getting worse successful D.C. — contempt information from the territory saying otherwise.
Now, the Justice Department is looking into the validity of those claims.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has not yet commented astir the investigation, archetypal reported by the New York Times.
National Guard beingness successful DC expected to treble soon
The probe comes arsenic the number of National Guard members connected the crushed successful D.C. is expected to turn erstwhile again.
Governors from Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio person offered up astir 1,200 troops to assistance successful surveillance astatine the nation's capital.
Updated numbers from the Trump medication amusement 465 arrests since the cognition began astir 2 weeks ago. Almost fractional of those arrests progressive radical accused of being successful the state illegally, according to the administration.
The D.C. constabulary national said robberies successful the territory were down 46%, carjackings were down 83% and each transgression was down 8% truthful acold this month.
Appearing connected NewsNation's "The Hill," Department of Homeland Security adjunct caput Tricia McLaughlin pointed to those numbers arsenic impervious that Trump's cognition has been palmy astatine targeting "high-crime areas."
"You tin consciousness the vibe displacement present successful D.C. Families are much retired ... you spot the instrumentality enforcement presence, and it does marque you consciousness safe," McLaughlin said. "But those statistic speaks for themselves."
Trump's DC crackdown skipping immoderate high-crime areas
Residents accidental National Guard soldiers are not being sent to immoderate high-crime areas successful the district, including southeast D.C.
Some told NewsNation they're confused arsenic to wherefore determination are nary military-style vehicles oregon troops successful the areas that request the astir help.
"It's brainsick astir here. Lots of violence, you know, tons of killings everywhere," said nonmigratory Shearisce Holton. "So, I'm surprised. I thought they were coming. I haven't seen nobody."
Tom Donahue, a D.C. vicinity commissioner, said the "show of force" from the Trump medication seems similar a "spectacle for those that are visiting."
"Everybody's asking wherever each these, you know, further forces are. But we don't spot them anywhere. Drive astir southeast (D.C.), and archer maine wherever you spot them," Donahue said.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz contributed to this report.
