Trump federalizes D.C. police amid rising crime and liberal denial, taking bold steps to restore order and expose the truth behind the stats.
In response to President Donald Trump’s decision this week to federalize the Washington, D.C. police department and deploy the National Guard to combat crime in the nation’s capital, Democrats and the liberal media have insisted that crime rates in the city are actually down and there is nothing to worry about. That tone-deaf strategy bears a striking resemblance to Democrats’ failed messaging on the economy during last year’s presidential race and shows that liberals still haven’t learned anything from their sweeping defeat in 2024.
Soon after Trump’s press conference on Monday, where he announced that he was placing DCPD “under direct federal control,” liberals began tripping over themselves to point out that crime in D.C. is supposedly down from recent years.
“Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote on X in a post that has garnered nearly two million views. That claim was quickly echoed across social media and parroted by major corporate media outlets. “Violent crime in D.C. has fallen in 2024 and 2025 after a 2023 spike,” CNN declared.
To hear liberals tell it, D.C. is a sparkling clean, crime-free utopia, and Donald Trump is an authoritarian bully trying to fight a problem that doesn’t exist. But that narrative very quickly breaks down when one digs just below the left’s surface-level claims.
For starters, that “30-year low” statistic is dubious at best. It comes from a Biden administration press release in January – the same administration that routinely cooked the books on jobs numbers, border crossings, and violent crime rates in other cities.
Then there’s the fact that just last month, a D.C. police commander was suspended and accused of pressuring officers to downgrade offenses to make the district’s crime rate look lower than it is.
