Trump’s Washington, D.C., crime crackdown exposes perception gap

President Donald Trump moved to the DC, a city invaded by “violent gangs and blood -thirsty criminals”, while acting to federalize the police force of the city and assign hundreds of national guards.

However, the terrible depiction of the country’s capital contradicts, but the federal data shows that the crime of violence in the region has fallen to its lowest level in thirty years.

“We cannot experience an increase in crime,” Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser He said at MSNBC on Sunday.

“Actually, we’re watching our crime numbers fall,” Bowser said.

Washington experienced an increase Crime in 2023, With the highest number of murders reported in the district since the 1990s and the increase in the number of Karacking reported.

However, this trend has been reversed since then, data From the Ministry of Justice.

Since Trump’s unprecedented use of the Presidential authority to activate the national guards was echoed in the city, Bowser described DC characterization as “hyperbolic” and “disturbing”.

However, among some inhabitants, despite the data, there is still a perception that the crime is still increasing in the country’s capital.

A Washington Post Last year’s survey 65%of the majority of Washington people, DC, the crime “extremely serious” or “very serious problem,” he said.

These rates were higher than the survey results for 2023, despite the decrease in crime in 2024.

National, one Yougov Survey He said that 34% of the US adults carried out last month have been “very increasing” since 1990.

This perception contradicts the data showing that murders have fallen in most cities in the last few decades.

Bowser argued that the gap between perception and reality is a function of how crimes make people feel.

“If you were a sacrifice, it doesn’t matter if you were a victim,” he said at a press conference after the announcement of Trump.

Jeff AsheA Crime Data Analyst and Data Analysis Company Ah Datalytics’ founding partner R R, R, the CNBC, said that even if the data shows otherwise, the Americans extensively “always increased the crime”.

There is a sharp partisan division of crime perceptions, and Trump has long been allegedly in American cities to justify the challenging game book on his crime.

Rhetoric-rather drew a variety of cities as a criminal-led cities as a criminal-in the same time to mobilize voters in their suburban regions.

The majority of Republicans and Republican-oriented voters-68%-collecting reduction, the democrats and democratic tendency voters compared to 47% of the president and the best policy priority for the congress, he said. According to Pew Research Center.

Asher told CNBC that policy makers should not be based on perception of crime reduction strategies, policies and programs “.

He said that policy decisions should be based on data, but “we need to deal with the issue of perception to make people feel safe.”

“I think two very different parties of a similar coin,” he continued.

Asher, even if the crime rates in the region fall – even if Trump reduces the arguments – “at the same time, things are too high, we need to try to see less murders and the DC murder rate increased compared to other big cities, he said.

“Given how long the city should move forward, there is no reason to feel comfortable with these decreases as permanent achievements, and this applies to many American cities.” He said.