Trump rejects D.C. leaders’ crime numbers, cites high-profile incidents in local policing takeover
By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times - Monday, August 11, 2025
President Trump declared an emergency over crime in the District of Columbia while disputing the accuracy of police statistics showing a 30-year low in violence in the nation’s capital.
Mr. Trump mentioned that a Metropolitan Police Department commander was suspended after being accused of fudging crime numbers during a briefing about fighting lawlessness by taking over D.C. police and sending in National Guard troops.
The allegations against former 3rd District Commander Michael Pulliam, whose precinct includes the neighborhoods of Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan, was placed on leave in May after the D.C. Police Union claimed supervisors were manipulating crime data, according to WRC-TV.
“As they say, [crime is] getting worse, not getting better, getting worse,” Mr. Trump said Monday. “There was a story about a man who had just left. He quit because he was asked to do phony numbers on crime, and we’re going to look into that.”
Mr. Trump brought up the report to counter arguments from city leaders, who have repeatedly held up plummeting crime statistics in the past two years to refute the president’s complaints about crime in the city.
“In the last two years where we have been laser focused on driving down crime, we have decreased violent crime by nearly 50% of what it was, yielding the lowest violent crime numbers our city has seen in 30 years,” read a joint statement from the D.C. Council, which is almost entirely controlled by Democrats.
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Metropolitan Police data shows violent crime is down 26% so far in 2025, a year after authorities reported a 35% drop in violent crime.
The killings, muggings and carjackings that terrorized the city in 2023 — when the District experienced a generational surge in crime not seen since the late 1990s — have declined dramatically since then.
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