As mayor calls US president ‘hyperbolic’, experts say portrayal of crime rooted in false and misleading claims

The Trump administration is preparing to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, a U.S. official told Reuters.

Crime rates in the nation’s capital are the lowest they have been in decades, and have decreased dramatically over the last two years.

President claims US capital ‘overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals … and homeless people’

The president offered misleading statements about crime trends in the nation’s capital.

The president also takes control of the city's police force, as the mayor rejects his claims of a crime wave.

Trump takes control of police, deploys National Guard in a move DC-rights activist calls ‘just authoritarianism’.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an…

The mayor disputed Trump’s justification for declaring a crime emergency, noting that crime has been trending down in the city after spiking in 2023.

Though the Trump administration claims violence in the capital is getting worse, police statistics show violent crime has been declining.

President Trump says he will deploy hundreds of troops to Washington DC to address crime there.

As mayor calls US president ‘hyperbolic’, experts say portrayal of crime rooted in false and misleading claims

Trump’s depiction of ‘lawless’ city at odds with crime statistics while local officials say move illegal – key US politics stories from Monday 11 August

Although crime has fallen in the US capital, Donald Trump is framing it as a crackdown on lawlessness and echoing his hard-line immigration tactics.

Trump said the actions were necessary to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” Statistics, however, have shown crime rates are down in…

Trump claimed DC crime is surging to deploy the National Guard, however, the city’s preliminary data proves otherwise.

Mayor Bowser disputes Trump’s emergency narrative, citing crime decline; critics call deployment a political power play.

Trump sends National Guard to D.C. to take over police department, sparking tension with Mayor Bowser over crime rates.

President Trump has activated 800 National Guard members to address what he calls a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. — even though data shows violent crime rates are falling.

Daniel Dale tackled the litany of false claims President Donald Trump made on Monday while announcing Washington, D.C., is coming under federal control.

The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital.