Oct. 15 (UPI) -- FBI Director Kash Patel said the first seven months of the Trump administration's Operation Summer Heat have posted the best crime-fighting numbers in the nation's history.
President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Patel detailed the results of "Operation Summer Heat" to thwart crime in Washington and other major cities during the summer months during a Wednesday afternoon press conference at the White House.
"Since the start of the administration, the FBI has arrested over 23,000 violent criminals," the president said, adding that the number is more than double the amount arrested during the final year of the Biden administration.
"The FBI has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs, 1,600 of the most violent gangs and confiscated more than 6,000 illegal firearms," Trump said.
He said the FBI also has arrested four out of 10 of the most wanted criminals in the United States, two of whom Trump said were the two most wanted criminals in the world.
