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

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

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

The president has railed against crime in urban, largely liberal cities for decades, but Monday’s announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.

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.

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

Despite being up in arms after President Donald Trump 'overstepped' and federalized the local police on Monday, Washington, DC, residents do admit that crime is a problem.

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

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.

President Trump seizes control of D.C. law enforcement, deploys National Guard, sparking concerns of civil rights violations.

Despite President Donald Trump's claims about Washington, D.C., the city's crime rates have fallen. But many residents have fears about public safety.

Local officials slam president’s remarks and point to federal funding cuts as the real harm to public safety in their cities