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(NewsNation) — President Trump claims transgression is down 100% successful Washington D.C. pursuing his administration’s federal takeover successful August, but statistic released by section police, nether his administration's control, amusement convulsive transgression is down 39%.
On Wednesday, Trump made the assertion portion gathering with Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki successful the Oval Office. This comes arsenic Trump continues to measurement sending national troops to Chicago and present New Orleans, arsenic portion of his crackdown connected crime.
“Washington D.C. is simply a wholly harmless city. You are not reporting immoderate transgression due to the fact that determination is none,” President Trump said. “They said transgression is down 87%, past I said ‘no it’s not. It’s down 100%.’”
A 100% simplification would mean nary crimes are being committed.
According to data released by the city’s Metropolitan Police Department, wide transgression successful D.C. has decreased by 15% and convulsive transgression has decreased 39%, during the national enforcement surge compared to the aforesaid clip past year. Homicides are marked arsenic having dropped 58% and robberies 57%.
“If you look astatine Washington D.C. 3 weeks ago, it was the aforesaid oregon worse and present it is considered a wholly harmless zone. Restaurants are open, they are bustling,” Trump said. “We person a large happening going. I could bash that with Chicago, we could bash that with New York, we could bash it with Los Angeles.”
Earlier this week, President Trump praised D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser successful a social media post, penning she has go “very fashionable due to the fact that she worked with maine and my large radical successful bringing CRIME down to virtually nothing.”
On Tuesday, Bowser signed an order authorizing coordination betwixt the city’s constabulary and national forces beyond Trump’s exigency transgression declaration nether the Home Rule Act, that is acceptable to expire connected September 10.
