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. As White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller aptly put it in a post on X, “Crime stats in big blue cities are fake. The real rates of crime, chaos & dysfunction are orders of magnitude higher. Everyone who lives in these areas knows this. They program their entire lives around it.”
Moreover, it is an undeniable fact that homicides in D.C. – a key metric for how violent a city actually is – are far from a 30-year low. 187 people were murdered in the nation’s capital last year. Yes, that’s down from the 274 murders and 203 murders the city saw in the exceptionally deadly years of 2023 and 2022, respectively, but it’s still far above the 166 murders seen as recently as 2019 and the 88 murders in 2012.
Even if we accept the “30-year low” line as legitimate, is that really something to celebrate? D.C. has seen exorbitant crime rates ever since Congress granted it home rule in 1973 and Democrats seized a permanent monopoly on the city’s government.
Liberals seem to want us to believe that because crime may not be as bad as it was 10 or 20 or 30 years ago that Trump has no basis for restoring order to a dirty, dangerous capital city. Even in the supposedly “low” crime year of 2024, D.C. still had the fourth-highest homicide rate of any city in the country. So far in 2025, there have already been nearly 1,600 violent crimes and 16,000 total crimes in D.C. Does that sound “safe”?
But the truly telling part of this whole episode is how quick liberals were to rush to “the data” to justify their position. While conveniently ignoring shocking statistics like the fact that 5.2 percent of kids aged 10-17 in D.C. have been arrested (roughly twice the national average), liberals effectively denied that D.C. even has a crime problem at all because “the data” shows violent crime is lower than it has been previously.
This is the same tone-deaf strategy that the Biden campaign and then the Kamala Harris campaign tried when it came to the economy during last year’s presidential race. As Americans struggled under 20 percent cumulative inflation, Democrats kept insisting that the economy was actually doing quite well because certain metrics like the unemployment rate, consumer spending, and wages appeared strong. They even gave a name to their supposed success: “Bidenomics.”
But when votes were cast last November, it became clear that the Bidenomics campaign was one of the biggest unforced political errors in American history. Democrats never seemed to understand that if their rosy, upbeat messaging on the economy didn’t match up with the reality most Americans were experiencing, it would just make the public bitter and resentful. They thought that because the “official” government data showed a strong economy, Americans would simply miss the fact that everything had gotten exorbitantly expensive and dreams of starting a family, owning a home, and retiring were suddenly out of reach.
This was a massive mistake that Democrats still have not corrected. Blind deference to the “expert” class helped sink their chances in 2024, and now it’s making them look like fools in response to Trump’s decisive action to address the crime crisis in D.C. While burying their heads in dubious statistics about crime rates, they’re ignoring shocking instances of horrific violence like a congressman who was carjacked, a Senate aide stabbed just trying to get a burrito bowl, a congressional intern shot and killed near the White House, and a DOGE staffer nearly beaten to death just last week.
If Democrats couldn’t convince Americans the economy was fine when their wallets said otherwise, they won’t convince them D.C. is safe when their own eyes say it’s not.
Shane Harris is the Editor in Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Never forget these points:
1)Democrats are pathological liars
2) Democrats hate Donald Trump and will do anything to see him fail
3) it is inherently racist to crack down on crime, because that unfairly targets criminals
4) if their lips are moving we know Democrats are lying.
The only places I hear the truth about the state of the country is from you at AMAC and on conservative talk radio. You certainly won’t hear it on mainstream news. If only conservatives (Republicans) would get out of their bubble of being “the silent majority” and shout out the problems loudly and often. Put up billboards, flood TV with ads, get out there and inform the people.
Has Hillary Clinton taken a late night stroll down the DC slum zone in the past 12 months? Typical liberal liar and sore LOSER!!!!!
Enough about Hillary, Joe stated it correctly. Again, the Democrats will keep using the same tactics and rhetoric against anything that President Trump does. They will be continuing to use these tactics in hope that enough “BLIND” voters will put more Demos in the US Congress thus gaining a majority to implement a call for impeachment against President Trump and then follow through against VP Vance. Again, the agenda is to continue to destroy this nation so the One World Order can have ONE GOVERNMENT for the world.
A SIMPLE QUESTION THAT REALLY NEEDS AN ANSWER: WHY AREN’T A BUNCHOFCORRUPTPOLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATSIN JAIL ND OFF THE TAXPAYER PAYROLL.
the dems just can’t handle all of the wins trump is bestowing on this country and it’s a glorious thing.
Weird and outrageously ridiculous to see there are politicians and citizens who obviously want to KEEP CRIME in their city. Let that sink in…
The TDS has gone pandemic in the Democrat party. When human lives become less important than stopping Trump things are way out of control.
the democrats have hated republicans since LINCOLN freed their slaves.
Dorothy asked the Scarecrow, “how can you speak if you don’t have a brain”. The Scarecrow replied “I’m a democrat”.
The things I’ve learned in 79 years about dem-o-rats: you must be a good liar to be a dem; you must resort to cheating in order to win; ALWAYS deny when caught with corruption; ALWAYS scream racism about opponents; speak conservatively in order to get elected–reveal true agenda later.
The “low” crime claim mirrors Biden’s handlers who claimed inflation fell. But that was the year after it was up 9%. Dropping from an all-time high is not much to brag about! It is still high to those who are victims of crimes or whose family members are being slaughtered!
Dems stuck in the Past since 1866
The democrats lying is nothing new. They create narratives with false facts put it out there, and repeat it over and over. Even if the violent crime was down, 187 murders is acceptable to the democrats? Or like one democrat put it climate change is much worse than crime in DC. Good to know being killed isn’t bad, being beaten to within an inch of your life isn’t bad. What are you worried about. Just go about your business. With this action president Trump took to stop violent crime completely and showed the democrats dont value life. They love the killing, raping, carjackings, beatings, purse snatching, drug use and homelessness in the streets. They want no police force they want lawlessness and slum cities. They forgot the people of this country do not. Deporting aliens 77% of the people say yes to that. In Denmark and Sweden they are busy deporting aliens as well. Even those who are there legally. Why? They don’t assimilate, they make a crime ridden slum out of their neighborhood. They Danes and the Swedes have had enough. The democrats love the lawlessness. Instead of helping to clean up DC and the rest of the major cities that have become dreg zones for criminality and disease. They want no law and order, for the democrats it is tear this country down so far that only democrats can save her with communist leaders like Mamdani. The poor will not be raised up by these leaders and the middle class will become poor alongside them. Not one leading democrat had something good to say about president Trump’s plan for DC. The dems don’t care what DC looks like.They return to their gated community, trading stock on insider trader information and call it a day. With all this the people again saw the true democrats in action. The destruction of America, one city, one state till one whole country is achieved.
Overturn that 1973 home ruling. It was most likely illegally passed in the first place! We have NO NEED of an INDEPENDENT DEEP STATE that is treasonous, steals from the country’s citizens, ruins the economy, and promotes chaos!! SHUT THEM DOWN!!
There is NOTHING more arrogantly ignorant (stubbornly STUPID) than Democrat politicians (and their voting supporters).
Keep on learning NOTHING. Maintain your INSANE ideology. Keep spewing your REJECTED talking points. Keep trying to pass more of your time-proven FAILED and MISERY-CAUSING policies. Keep doubling down on your perverted child mutilation and sterilization cruelty. Keep on raising taxes on the working class. Keep on creating endless ‘NEW’ taxes. Keep on dumbing down our schools. Keep insisting perverted and deranged men play in female sports. Keep putting America and We the People LAST. And kyon doing ALL the other stupid and well beyond ridiculous things you dimwits constantly do. MAGA PATRIOTS LOVE IT and APPRECIATE IT.
With due respect to JFK and Madeleine L’Engle… only a Democrat could destroy Camelot in order to create Camazotz!
As much as I dislike a federal control over something that a state government should be regulating, in this instance, this location is also a quasi-federal but separate jurisdiction. It was set up by a joint federal decision to have this location be used as the geographic location for federal personnel and federal agencies to set up buildings and to use the location for general purpose. Like any other location in the USA, safety concerns should be addressed, which has nothing to do with differences in views about what should be acceptable behavior that changes how on paper/ reports of an activity is classified. Washington D.C. has to maintain a better standard of safety as the example for the rest of the USA and not be the opposite. There was no alternative options made to effectively address unacceptable behaviors with alternative solutions. Instead all that was done was create a get out of jail system permission system.
Dems stuck & live in the Past NO change since 1866
the democrats will NEVER learn the lessons of 2024 because THEY DON:T WANT TO!
Again, this is another BIG decision for Trump to have made, along with his clear explanation, of why he and his good team would do this for the preservation of our beautiful AMERICA!
Trump is standing up in so many ways, within the purpose of peace, and it keeps getting twisted or abused every step of the way.
However, the people of this nation has made their decision for Trump to be our President as one nation…… under God.
Dems have become so radicalized that they are not even close to being recognized by most Americans. I predict the whole party will implode and be disbanded as it currently is, and be replaced by something the millions of voters can agree on. Right now, they are simply communists who need to be stomped out.
They are paid protestors.. Read Gateway Pundit article.
Good ol’ killery should sit down and shut up! I’m 100% sure that the murder rate in DC fell drastically after she moved away.
If the Democrats say it, then you already know it is LIE. They prove it daily.
It’s funny to continue to hear the Democrats. Doing the same old Song And Dance Everyday. They are not even Smart enough. To realize, That nobody listens to anything they say. The Whole World has seen. How they lie lie lie about everything. They have become the Most Corrupt Party in the World.
My wife grew up in DC. She and her family watched the city decline from the capitol of a great nation to looking more like a Soviet bloc city, with the depressing architecture and design out of the latest five year plan. 25 years ago, when we went to see her dad, we choose to stay in one of the most upscale hotels in the city, within walking distance of Capitol Hill, except, on a quick walk around the block we found hookers on ever corner. Several years ago on a more recent visit, it took us numerous tries to find a cab to take us to her cousin’s house a bit further out, and the cabbie practically pushed us out and took off in midday so he could race out of the area. That evening, we couldn’t find a cab company that would send anyone to pick us up. Fortunately, her cousin’s wife had an account with a new company called Uber, and sent back to our hotel! When I visited back in my college days, I was so proud of the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, the towering Washington memorial, our White House and Capitol building…..
Their blind followers will keep believing them though. It must suck to be brainwashed into believing everything a liar tells you.
The left lies, ok. But how do you fight back is my question. Liberals don’t have a memory at all, and that’s pretty much how they can sleep at night. How do we lose our conscience?
Democrats are not going to learn a lesson from 2024 election especially about the crime in any of the blue states because they are criminals themselves backing criminals, baling them out when they were arrested and out in the streets committing violence along side of their criminal partners. And then take a look at the illegal lawfare of the democrat regime against Trump and Jan. 6 innocent patriots. And Bidens’ illegal criminal activity with Ukraine and China and got away with it so far. And a hugh amount of criminal activity under all of the democrats.
Well, we shouldn’t be sounding the alarm too loud about how everything the Democrats do isn’t, and hasn’t, worked. Don’t want to wake up the delusional left. If Hillary says something, it must be true, right? Who are we to argue with Democrat royalty?
The voting public, at least most of them, are getting the message. Personally, if Hillary said the sun was shining at noon, I’d have to go outside and check. There’s a problem with infallible party loyalty. When you all waddle along behind the lead duck, things get a little quacky. That’s why I’m a Conservative first. I’m a Republican only because the party leans my direction.
Never vote for a Democrat, and choose your conservatives wisely!
Right, crime rates are down on paper and up in the streets of Washington DC. Politicians have taxpayer security teams. They don’t live in crime ridden neighbors. The really don’t care about public safety in DC
Russiagate explains everything you need to know about Dems. To add insult to injury Today’s Democrat party is not your fathers democrat party and is fast becoming the new age Communist Party.
The last Administration is total disaster ! Biden put our country in a bad way! We were going way of country run by communist dictator!
Deranged Dems can only play the racism card, but the deck is clearly marked and most Americans know it. Dems stridently oppose Trump cleaning up their big city messes because they fear losing the endless stream of tax dollars going into their homeless industrial complex.
I’ve been saying this all along. Too bad the Biden’s weren’t the victims, cause they should have been.
Can we believe anything out of Hillary’s mouth? The thing about statistics is you can usually make them read whatever you want.
AGREE with them and tell them that’s why you’re taking their security away
If there’s a possible sour note in this for the GOP, it’s that the Trump WH found the motivation to act only after members of the political class—a congressman, a Senate aide, a congressional intern, a DOGE staffer—were victims of street crime. So long as it was ‘just’ civilians who were being injured/killed, the gov’t struck a pose of indifference. The bad news for Democrats is that they’re still in denial, as they have been for the last 4 years (when violent crime skyrocketed), pretending everything’s OK while hiding behind a fog of crime stats. Dems are left arguing that if there used to be a D.C. crime problem, they deserve a hearty “thanks!” for having fixed it—profound political tone deafness.
Judge Jeannie Pirro said yesterday that her hands were tied as far as stopping crime waves by kids aged 14,15,16,17 as the law let them out on bail or probation and did not convict them. Pirro said that ends today, and will say no cash bail and will treat them under crimes as adult. This means that she will be putting a lot of people in jail in DC & the same day AG Pam Bondi said we will clean up homeless & if they do not accept choices they will be fined or jailed. Have Bondi and Pirro checked to see how much room they have in jail or will they have to ship them to other cities for jail. I hope that both of them can walk the walk and not just talk the talk about cleaning up city crime.
So if Washington DC didn’t have self rule till 1973 and things went downhill after that how about Congress votes to get rid of that self rule standard? I don’t imagine any calls to make DC a state had existed till after their self rule!
I’m old enough to remember when arch-racist Jesse Jackson begrudgingly admitted that, when he was walking in D.C. at night and heard footsteps behind him, he felt great relief that the other pedestrian was white. I also remember when cocaine charges were filed against Mayor Marion Berry and he had to resign. So D.C. has been awful for decades, and everyone knows it
Pull your heads out of the sand and pay attention to we the People who have actually been living your nightmare.
The only good thing about watching the liberal Marxist/democrats now is that we can truly see what they stand for. They have no real solutions and can only point fingers and continue to quote their lies and “statistics”. It’s comical but tragic at the same time.
Radical Democrats in Congress and state legislatures want high crime rates, along with defunded law enforcement, so they can (wrongly) justify: (1) taking our freedoms away (anti-gun laws and labeling truth tellers “domestic terrorists”), (2) restricting our ability to travel freely, and (3) creating a national police force to replace local cops and sheriffs. People like AOC seek total control of our lives, which would require eliminating the bonds in many communities between citizens and their brothers and sisters in blue.
D.C. Democrats simply won’t admit that violent criminals are at fault—not lawful gun owners—for violent felonies. Dems who eventually realize that infringing lawful citizens’ Second Amendment rights will only make life safer for violent felons, continue to reelect people who make crime rates increase.’
Many Democrats have become useful idiots for socialist elites.. They blindly accept whatever D.C. Democrats and their big media allies tell them. As more proof about Trump’s innocence and that the conspiracies against him were fraudulent emerges, voting Democrats continue to support the same elites again and again.
Mn. Is no different than D.C. since our stupid governor showed to the country (we all saw it on TV during riots) that crime & looting are acceptable behavior. Our family no longer goes down to the Mpls. or St Paul. No discipline allowed, crime soars. That is common sense. Democrats have none. I remember taking our kids down to science museum and shows in city, I wouldn’t dare take my grandkids there now. What a different country this has gotten to be. Sad, very very sad. Human race needs areas of discipline, what happened to parents? Can’t they see when their child thinks their opposite sex or an animal they need mental health help? Wonder why suicide rate is so high? We just can’t all have it our own way, it doesn’t work, can we all not see that? There is a reason for discipline. Police officers need to be able to do their jobs. George Floyd was a criminal & a junkie, he was turned into a hero. That was not right. Yes there are good cops & bad cops, there are good doctors & bad doctors. Good & bad in every line of work, we are all human. But George Floyd should never have become the hero. Immigration, Fraud, come on people wake up, let’s go back to honesty and common sense. It worked much better.
The democrats have never learned(changed)! They are what they have always been, liars, thieves and socialist.
Why settle for ‘a little better,’ or ‘good enough,’ when we deserve ‘A LOT BETTER.’ Clean it up. Raise our standards — we OWE the Americam people SAFE CITIES. What is it about ‘NO CRIME’ and SAFE STREETS that SOME Democrats don’t understand???
Democrats said… Hahahaha.
When the Dems insist there is no crime wave in DC, I’m reminded of the Summer of Love when $billions of damages were done, so many lost their small businesses, no perp suffered and Kamala Harris started a fund to bail out any arrested. It was “mostly peaceful.”