Liberals’ DC Crime Narrative Debunked, Crackdown Crushes Crime in Week One
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President Donald Trump’s law-and-order initiative in Washington, D.C., is showing results after its first week, with significant declines in several categories of violent crime.
The crackdown began earlier this month as part of a federal effort to address crime in the nation’s capital.
The initiative came after years of public concern about rising carjackings, robberies, and violent offenses.
Supporters of the effort have pointed to the immediate results from the first week.
According to the latest available data, carjackings dropped by 83 percent compared to the seven days before the operation began.
Robberies fell by nearly half during the same period, while violent crime overall declined by 22 percent.
The reported decreases come amid renewed debate over how crime statistics in the District have been tracked and presented in recent years.
Earlier this year, a D.C. police commissioner was suspended following allegations of falsifying crime numbers to show reductions that did not accurately reflect the city’s crime rate.
The suspension raised questions about the reliability of previously released data, including claims that the District’s crime levels had reached “30-year lows.”
Critics of that narrative note that even if the figures had been accurate, the city’s murder rate remained far higher than the national average.