Source: New York Times
“President Trump has ordered an unspecified number of federal law enforcement agents to be deployed in Washington, D.C., days after threatening a federal takeover of the city and claiming that crime there was ‘totally out of control.’ Washington’s crime rates — ranging from violent crime to thefts and burglaries — have been falling significantly, but the order follows the president’s effort to paint the nation’s capital as rife with violent crime. Mr. Trump highlighted the beating earlier this week of a prominent Department of Government Efficiency employee by a mob of young assailants in an attempted carjacking, according to local police.” (08/07/25)