In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised the National Guard and local law enforcement for their significant presence on the capital’s streets as the administration seeks to address violent crime in D.C. Trump also said that D.C. has gone more than a week without a murder, a statistic that the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to Fox News on Thursday.
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Trump then called out Mayor Bowser, arguing that more work needs to be done to fix the city’s reporting of crime statistics.
“Mayor Muriel Bowser must immediately stop giving false and highly inaccurate crime figures, or bad things will happen, including a complete and total Federal takeover of the City!” he said. “Washington D.C. will soon be great again!!!”
The D.C. Police Union, which represents 3,000 officers with the Metropolitan Police Department, has said that there are issues with the accuracy of the crime data reported by the police department. Mayor Bowser has highlighted the police department’s statistics, which have shown a significant decrease in violent crime in the past two years, to push back against Trump’s National Guard deployment and attempted federal takeover of the D.C. police.
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“What we know, what our members know, is that we go call to call to call out on the streets at night, going from robbery to carjacking to stabbing to shooting, and we just know that crime is ubiquitous, and it’s all in every quadrant of the city,” he said. “So to have people tell us, ‘well, crime is down, you shouldn’t be worried about that,’ that’s not the reality that we feel on the streets.”
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into whether D.C. police officials have cooked the books on crime stats, The Washington Post reported. In May, a D.C. police commander was placed on leave over accusations that he altered crime data. The commander, Michael Pulliam, denied the allegations. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is leading the DOJ investigation and will likely look into the actions of multiple police officials.
When Trump first announced his operation to “make D.C. safe again” last week, the Justice Department and Attorney General Pam Bondi took complete control of the Metropolitan Police Department and named Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole as the emergency police commissioner.
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Trump joined National Guard troops and federal agents on patrol Thursday evening, bringing them food and praising them for their work.
“You people are winners, and it’s such an honor to be with you,” Trump told the troops and law enforcement officers. “We’re going to make Washington, D.C., great again. We’re making the country great again.”
They can quote whatever fabricated statistics they want. Use their talking points. No matter how they cut it the chart will show a slow decrease in crime (I do not believe it for a second) over the last 2 years. Then watch on the chart the “Huge” drop after this. Who is more efficient at fighting crime, use it to show how effective you are at fighting crime and keeping cities and the people safe. I can see the AD now, show a before and after and a statistics chart.
* Original Article:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-d-c-mayor-fix-crime-stats-or-face-total-federal-takeover
Democrats in charge of these cities have to stop playing games changing definitions and not counting crimes as the crimes they are. They need to actually charge offenders with the actual crime committed, they need to prosecute them, and they need to keep violent offenders away from their citizens. Do it FOR REAL
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