Posted on 08/19/2025 3:55:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump’s crusade against crime in the nation’s capital has resulted in more than 450 arrests since Aug. 7, the White House announced Tuesday morning. Those arrests, fueled by an increase in federal agents on city streets, run the gamut of charges, from murder and assault to driving under the influence.
But a full picture about who has been arrested, where, for what and by whom is not yet clear.
Every day, the White House issues a summary of the previous night’s operation, including the number of arrests and some examples of arresting causes. Numbers of illegal firearms seized (68 overall as of Tuesday morning) and encampments cleared (48 overall) are included, too.
The Washington Post repeatedly reached out to the White House for the arrest records undergirding their statistics and has not received answers to questions about the specific details of each arrest.
D.C. police deferred a similar request, saying the information needed to come from the White House. When asked specifically about the number of arrests made by local officers, not federal agents, D.C. police directed the questions to the mayor’s office, which is not responsible for arrest data and did not respond.
As a result, there’s a black hole instead of the usually readily accessible basic information surrounding an arrest. For example, when D.C. police make an arrest there will be a “Public Incident Report” — a public document that includes, among other things: the offense and its location and date and a short description of what happened. D.C. police continue to provide the reports for crimes in which local officers made the arrest, but refuse to answer questions about many of the arrests made by the multiagency federal task force teams, despite D.C. police officers being embedded within many of them.
Between Aug. 7 and...
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The WaPo would like you to know that the Americans are nowhere near Baghdad and are being burned in the fires of hell.
What a stupid article.
IF ONLY President Trump would personally lead a SWAT team into the WaPo HQ and arrest all the employees — take them to the secret gulag on Mar-a-lago — I would be inclined to vote for him for Dictator in 2028, 2032, 2036...
Hey Emma! It’s all Uber for you! :-)
(talk about a fever swamp... truckload of psych meds to the WaPo! STAT!)
The WP wasn’t nearly concerned about arrests when Biden was in charge.
Ok, WaPo, this started on 8/7, 12 days ago. Multiple LE organizations. Stop wasting tax money making unreasonable demands for immediate police reports for your inciteful and sensationalist articles.
>> The WP wasn’t nearly concerned about arrests when Biden was in charge.
Yeah, as long as it was Jack Smith doing the arresting, and Donald J. Trump (or Mike Flynn or J6ers) in the mug shot...
Is Metro safe to ride?
IOWs, federal officers are just embedded with DC police, and they’re the ones that are doing the arrests
I thought that’s how it’s always supposed to go unless they’re being held by ICE for deportation
That's because you are fake news.
“President Donald Trump’s crusade against crime in the nation’s capital has resulted in more than 450 arrests since Aug. 7”
That’s going to slow down Congress a bit...
LOL!! It’s called letting the D.C. police do their job, and enforce the law, instead of being told to ignore crime.
Does anyone read the Washington Post?
I guess the “Washington Post” doesn’t employ investigative reporters anymore. All they have to do is check the DC arrest and detention reports. Don’t just take some agency or person’s opinion.
“ Is Metro safe to ride?”
National Guard have been posted at ten troublesome stations from today. They are also riding alongside the Metro rail police, effectively doubling the number of trains they’re patrolling.
Bingo.
12 days in and these liberal scumbags want answers on who is being arrested.
But years of kids getting shot to death in the streets never once raised their journalistic curiosity? TDS that says whatever Trump does is bad, that is why it is unreadable.
You expect rotting garbage from the Washington Compost, and they rarely disappoint.
The details are hidden.But you somehow know about the order.
“ As a result, there’s a black…”
Racists.
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