President Trump Deploying National Guard in D.C. Despite Plunging Crime Stats

President Trump‘s describing our nation’s capital as a dystopian hellscape the place criminals run amok with no legislation and order … and he is sending in National Guard troops and taking on the police drive — however crime stats inform a a lot totally different story.

Trump and his cupboard are in the course of a giant canine and pony present Monday on the White House, asserting plans for a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.

POTUS says he is sending in tons of of National Guard troops to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor … and worse.”

Trump additionally claimed D.C. is “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people.”

It all seems like doom and gloom … till you take a look at the numbers.

Metropolitan Police Department statistics present crime down in virtually each class in 2025 — no less than when in comparison with 2024 — violent crime is down 26%, property crime is down 4% and all crime is down 7%. And a U.S. Dept. of Justice report this yr exhibits violent crime stats within the metropolis are at a 30-year low.

Trump talked about murder charges and mentioned individuals do not wish to get shot and killed on their manner to purchase a newspaper. MPD stats present murder is down 12% this yr … and we did not know individuals nonetheless exit to purchase newspapers.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro all stood stone-faced behind Trump as he described a wasteland … declaring, “We’re not gonna let it happen anymore. We’re not gonna take it.”