Trump visits cops, military in DC amid crime crackdown
US President Donald Trump visited a command center to thank the law enforcement officers who made the crime pressure and received the law and order message on the streets of the country’s capital.
Trump deployed national guard troops and federal agents to the city last week. Authorized, because they said there was a violent wave of crime, the presidential power temporarily took over for an extraordinary claim, he said.
City officials rejected the claim by pointing to the federal and city statistics that have been a crime of violence since an increase in 2023.
Trump said that the efforts of hundreds of uniform staff gathered at the US park police Anacostia Operations facility on Thursday, without showing evidence, led to a decrease in crime.
“Like a different place,” he said in the facility, which serves as a center for the southeast part of Washington.
“Now everyone is safe.”
“We will have the best capital so far,” he promised.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser asked reporters whether the city was safer in the early hours on Thursday, and that the capital has seen a decrease in crime for the last two years.
“We want more arrests to have 500 additional civil servants and we want weapons from the streets. Our police officers continue to do the job and expect a difference with more civil servants.” He said.
On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the troops at Washington’s central train center Union Station, which protesters confused them with jeers and shouts.
On Thursday, Trump attended the US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi, the White House General Manager Susie Wiles and Stephen Miller, the Deputy General Manager of the Architect of the Immigration of Trump.
Trump’s administration this week ordered federal prosecutors in Washington to be more aggressive in maintaining criminal cases against people arrested as part of the pressure in the country’s capital.
The movement pointed out a rise of Trump’s pushing against what he described as a wave of crime and homelessness in Washington.
