Hate-Trump Media Falsely Report D.C. Crime Decrease of 35 Percent Using City’s Bogus Data

The New American ^ | August 12, 2025 | R. Cort Kirkwood

[E. Pluribus Unum]

While some far-left Democrats have admitted that President Trump did the right thing in federalizing Washington, D.C.’s, police and ordering the FBI and National Guard into the city to combat violent crime, the far-left, hate-Trump mainstream media quickly pounced on the crime data he used in announcing the move.

Violent crime in the nation’s capital, they say, is down almost 40 percent. But the media’s crime-fighting journalists don’t know — or did know and didn’t report — that the city fiddles with violent-crime data to exclude very violent crimes from their total.

Thus, violent crime in the city did not decrease 35 percent from 2023 to 2024, as it claims, and the media dutifully repeated. Rather, it’s dropped only 12 percent, the Daily Caller disclosed. Indeed, violent assaults jumped almost 15 percent, and since 2022, almost 40 percent.

As murders go, the city is still among the most dangerous nationally.

Trump’s Order

In an executive order published yesterday, Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to oversee law enforcement in the city, with Terry Cole, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, controlling the Metropolitan Police Department.

Trump also deployed FBI agents and 800 Guardsmen to patrol streets to help fight crime.

“The District of Columbia now has a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than all 50 States, recording a homicide rate in 2024 of 27.54 per 100,000 residents,” the order says:

It also experienced the Nation’s highest vehicle theft rate with 842.4 thefts per 100,000 residents — over three times the national average of 250.2 thefts per 100,000 residents. The District of Columbia is, by some measures, among the top 20 percent of the most dangerous cities in the world.

Indeed, a corollary...

[C210N]

Notice how Deep State government statistics lie, no matter the subject. Here it is DC crime, while just a few days ago, it was BLS on financial reports, unemployment, inflation.

[Da Coyote]

Who lies more, Muslims, the media, or Democrats?
Spinning beach ball...rotating hour glass...spinning beach ball...rotating hour glass...spinning beach ball...rotating hour glass...

[Carry_Okie]

Notice how Deep State government statistics lie, no matter the subject. Here it is DC crime, while just a few days ago, it was BLS on financial reports, unemployment, inflation.

It's been that way since Clinton, and Bush didn't fix it.

[Words Matter]

Is MSNBC on top of the list?

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Hate-Trump media falsely report

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[C210N]

While I didn't at the time, I now lump the Bushes (including senior), Clintoons and the Kenyan and his husband, all part of the same swampy Deep State gang. Different wings of the same bird.

Yes, I'm aware that Melania was cropped out of that gathering. I have no idea why she was even in the room.

[Vaduz]

Democrats are the stabbed snake and nobody to remove the pitch fork.

Nothing about them has ever been believable.

[Carry_Okie]

I now lump the Bushes (including senior), Clintoons and the Kenyan and his husband, all part of the same swampy Deep State gang.

Yup. I held my nose in 2000 (voted for Keyes in the primary), but the stench has caught up and is now overwhelming. I really don't know what we gained in defeating Gore. The tenets of MAGA I foresaw in the mid 90's might have happened sooner.

[Uncle Lonny]

The DC police chief just revealed that she did know what a “chain of command meant”.
https://townhall.com//tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/08/12/dc-police-chief-stumped-by-basic-question-on-chain-of-command-n2661740

Like another DEI appointment to the supreme court who could not define a woman, something any Jr high school student could do, because she was “not a biologist.”

[C210N]

I believe the embryonic MAGA dates back to the mid 1960’s.

Wasnt ready for prime time in the 1990’s. It needed until 2017 to get started publicly. I also believe a climactic point in time is july 4 2026.

[Sam Gamgee]

Waiting for the media to mention this story.

[Organic Panic]

Wanna bet the DNC media whores “correct” the previous fake statistics that show crime went way down?

[Texan4Life]

“The place is an absolute S***HOLE!” -Anthony Cumia GETS HONEST about Donald Trump’s D.C. TAKEOVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkCq7TgDcyo

[gildafarrell]

Did we expect anything less? demoncRATS own mainstream media. That’s a fact that won’t go away. Think of how many links to mainstream media that odoofus the illegal islamic had as paid staff? There was a slew if not direct media then their spouses or relation thereof. That’s why the media always reported him as doing no wrong.

[Carry_Okie]

I believe the embryonic MAGA dates back to the mid 1960’s.

Evidences please.

MAGA is reactionary in nature. Yet the mid '60s was before the EPA, OSHA, OPEC, killing nuclear, nationwide use of LSD, the pill, Roe v. Wade, and mass outsourcing (although Japan was coming on after its WWII debacle). Detroit hadn't even hit its peak. LBJ had made a mess of Vietnam and Nixon ran on crime, but the latter was more of a RINO internationalist under Kissinger.

I became a manufacturing engineer in the mid-80s because of what I saw of American competitive deficiencies. By the 90s all those above forces had been in place long enough to justify a MAGA reaction. My major complaint at that time was the consequent combination of outsourcing and burdensome regulations that were destructive to their justifying purposes.

[spintreebob]

“Deep State government statistics lie”

It isn’t just “Deep State government”... It is “statistics”.

Statistics turn detail data into generalizations. The establishment/swamp has adopted certain generalizations as approved/standard/official. They are useful if we realize they are inaccurate generalizations.

I did premium audits for workers comp insurance where premium is based on payroll. I would walk into a restaurant or factory and say “I want to know ALL the payments for labor, both those on the books and those not on the books.” I would audit “THE RISK” of potential workers comp claims.

But I was taught “Audit the books, don’t audit the business”; that is the standard and Insurance companies base rates on the standard. Thus Insurance company statistics that follow the “standard” are inacurate when compared to reality.

The same is true in Medicaid. CMS has set certain “standard” statistics so states can be compared. These statistics do not necessarily give a true picture of Medicaid. But CMS thinks they are the “best” for their agenda.

The same is true everywhere. Statistics exist to be compared. They are generalizations. The generalizations are conveniences. Race is a good example. Is a Quatroon white or Black? How many generations of mixing of races before one of the mix is no longer relevant?