Republican doesn’t wear seatbelt in DC ‘because of carjacking’ despite data showing decline | Republicans

A Republican Senator said he did not wear a seat belt while driving at Washington DC, so that Carjacked could move faster and by the Trump administration, despite the statistics mentioned otherwise, he could add more fuel to the ranking in which the crime increased in the United States.

Markwayne Mullin said Fox News on Wednesday, avoiding sprains, avoiding violating local traffic regulations, so he can “rush in a hurry”.

Orum I’m not kidding when I say that. I’m walking around my Washington DC in my Jeep, and yes, I’m driving myself. And I’m not shaking hands. And the reason I’m not shaking hands, and the reason they can tell people what they want, they can grow their eyebrows again, ”he said.

Donald Trump’s national guard troops to be deployed to the US capital controversial and the seizure of the metropolitan Police Department as federals, while Mullin said he would not wear a seat belt in other cities controlled by the Democrats. However, he said he was wearing a seat belt in other judicial regions.

“If you just look at car theft, Washington DC had been a state, Washington DC would have been three times higher than other states,” Mullin said. “And we’re talking about a city. And we compare it to the states.”

Mullin’s comments emerge as a war of Washington DC’s crime rate, as an attempt to fight record -breaking violent crimes between the supporters and opponents of Trump’s orders.

“The murders in 2023 probably reached the highest rate,” Trump said on Monday. “They say 25 years, but they don’t know what it means because it dates back to 25 years.”

“Today, the murder rate in Washington is higher than Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City, or some places you hear as the worst places in the world.”

These statistics open the murder of 2024 and reveal a murder rate compatible with a graphics provided by the White House. 27.5 per 100,000 people in Washington – Put Capitol on cities Bogotá, Colombia (15)Panama City, Panama (15)San José, Costa Rica (13), Mexico City, Mexico (10), Lima, Peru (7.7), and Brasília, Brazil (6.8).

However, official statistics tell a different story. The murders fell from 274 to 187 in 2024 a year ago – the highest number since 1997. This year there were 100 murders for 12 August. According to the New York Times, A slight decrease from 112 to the same date last year.

As mentioned in other capitals of the world New York TimesWashington’s murder rates are 67.2 per 100,000, including places such as Port-Aau-Prince and Haiti; 66.8, Kingston, Jamaica and Cape Town, South Africa, 64.2; And more have higher murder rates, data A compiled by the Igarapé Institute Brazil Thinktank In 2023.

Trump claimed that “the number of car theft has doubled in the last five years and has doubled the number of Carjacking”. The city’s indicator table Showing Carjings is rising for three years from 2020 before falling in 2024.

This year, until August 9, in the same period in the same period in 2024, 188 Carjack was compared and compared to 607 in 2023, A police spokesman told Polytifact. Car theft fell from 2023 to 2024 25%.

An analysis reported by the Washington Metropolitan Police Department CnnHe also showed that the general offense in Washington decreased in 2025 – in line with the decline in other major US cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.