Trump Misstates D.C. Crime Data to Justify Takeover

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation's capital.

Posted by retort at 08:41 AM | 32 COMMENTS | permalink

Trump announces he's taking over the DC police department to rescue the city from "crime, bloodshed, and bedlam." Violent crime in DC reached a 30 year low in 2024 and is down sharply again this year.

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-- Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) Aug 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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"Misstates" is not the correct word.

Trump Lies About D.C. Crime Data is what the headline ought to say.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-13 09:35 AM

He didn't "misstate" anything, dumbass.

HE STRAIGHT UP LIED

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-13 10:09 AM

There is a crime wave in DC if you count crooked politicians.

#3 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-08-13 11:40 AM

"During a 2020 city council hearing, two D.C. police officers blew the whistle on their superiors, accusing them of misreporting violent crimes as misdemeanors to make the nation's capital appear safer on paper."
LOL

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-08-13 12:28 PM

There is a crime wave in DC if you count crooked politicians.

#3 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-08-13 11:40 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Speaking of crooked politicians I've scoured this site and can't find one story on the Dem whistle blower who exposed that Shifty Schiff leaked classified material to the press. Remember Adam, no one is above the law!

#5 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-08-13 12:34 PM

This is the man who said he'd lower drug prices by 1,500%.

#6 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-08-13 01:03 PM

#5 | Posted by fishpaw

Are you too stupid to post the story yourself? Perhaps it's from a source you're too embarrassed to cite?...

Stop being a lazy pedo enabler.

#7 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-08-13 01:04 PM

#7. It wouldn't matter where the story came from you'd dismiss it since it makes you look bad for believing Schiff and the hoax for years.

#8 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-08-13 01:08 PM

#7. It wouldn't matter where the story came from you'd dismiss it since it makes you look bad for believing Schiff and the hoax for years.

#8 | Posted by fishpaw

What hoax? The one where you still can't explain why trump hired a russian asset as his campaign manager? The one where investigators were banned from looking into his financial ties to putin? The one where he obstructed justice 11 times and fired the attorney general to make it stop?

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-13 01:21 PM

The biggest Hoax is modern history is MAGA.

It's nothing more than a vessel for fascism to kill this nation.

And morons like FishPedo are stupid enough to embrace it.

Like the Iranians do the ayatollahs and the North Koreans do the Kim Jongs.

Conservatives love fascism.

It's the only way to force others to be as miserable as they are.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-13 01:30 PM

wouldn't matter where the story came from you'd dismiss it since it makes you look bad for believing Schiff and the hoax for years.

#8 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Look at this stupid piece of s^*% still acting as if the garbage he's been fed is true.

F*^% me you're stupid.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-13 01:34 PM

No, DC Is Not Safer Than Ever: Police Union Alleges Preposterous' Crime Stats Are Being Cooked
www.mediaite.com

#12 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-13 01:43 PM

It wouldn't matter where the story came from you'd dismiss it since it makes you look bad for believing Schiff and the hoax for years.
#8 | Posted by fishpaw

You're right, it shouldn't. Yet folks like you cultists are CONSTANTLY shooting the messenger. So why not step up and stop being a hypocrite, cultist?

#13 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-13 01:45 PM

Police Union Alleges Preposterous' Crime Stats Are Being Cooked

"The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year."

"last year"

So then we'd only see a one year drop in the data, before returning to baseline.

But that's not what we are seeing.

We're seeing crime at lowest rates in 30 years.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-13 01:49 PM

The crime rate drop is also happening nationally.

The spike during the pandemic (which didn't come close to touching historical rates) was also national.

This line of argument is an excuse, nothing more nothing less.

The fact of the matter is the federalization of DC is a power grab predicated on a paper thin excuse.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-13 02:05 PM

D.C. only got home rule because of Woke DEI Civil Rights.

Republicans support undoing that for the Virtue Signaling alone.

The fact that it can be used as a weapon against so many black people is the orange cherry on top.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-13 02:07 PM

Pedo loving MAGATS deserve to be ...

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-13 06:33 PM

Using per capita crime rates in a commuter city like DC is really misleading. The DC population doubles during the day, so to be fair, you have to cut the per capita rate in half when comparing it to other cities. www.census.gov

#18 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-08-13 09:27 PM

"Using per capita crime rates in a commuter city like DC is really misleading."

Sure, but what's not misleading is crime is far lower in the District than in recent years and decades.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-13 09:53 PM

Who is anyone to stop whites from lying about African Americans. It's been a national pastime for centuries.

#20 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-08-14 06:11 AM

wouldn't matter where the story came from you'd dismiss it since it makes you look bad for believing Schiff and the hoax for years.

#8 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Okay. So you're to embarrassed to cite your source. You could have just said that. Liar.

#21 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-08-14 05:38 PM

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

the kings of projection are at it again.

everything about crime numbers on cnn and the other

democrat rump ------- media and democrat pansy

arse nancys is faked / lies and distortions.

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#22 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-08-14 06:05 PM

... Trump Misstates D.C. Crime Data to Justify Takeover ...

Trump Misstates Data to Justify ...

FTFY.

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 06:06 PM

and every ignorant dope from j. clibern to pelosu

to art fern...ha ha....is puking out the same effing

bull ----- about racism.

racist / homophobe / transblah etc .....those words mean

nothing to normal people.

#24 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-08-14 06:08 PM

undoing that for the Virtue Signaling alone.
#16 | Posted by snoofy
GGG
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OH OH OHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE STOP ME FROM

LAUGHING....he hee heeeeeee aaaaaaaaaaahhhh AHAHAHAHAHAA

----again,...projection ? or a poster
in a coven of ignorant dopes...too
stupid to know that the
democrat party ONLY survives by virtue signaling / perpetrating racism /
POVERTY, class warfare AND NOW perpetuate criminals in DC.....

#25 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-08-14 06:19 PM

--IN DC and every other despicable democrat garbage eating punk

ho run city in American...

#26 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-08-14 06:21 PM

Shrimp, I don't think you are smart enough to be a paid troll. Who would possibly spend a nickel to finance your drivel? Truth is, you just are a very stupid man with an empty life other than echoing talking points on an obscure liberal website. I feel sorry for you. I do.

#27 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-08-14 06:29 PM

He's definitely not smart enough, Moder8. That's why he always types all that stupid Bwahaha garbage. He can't think of actual words.

#28 | Posted by cbob at 2025-08-14 06:56 PM

-Who would possibly spend a nickel to finance your drivel?

more importantly, who would possibly spend a nickel to spread that drivel here?

#29 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-14 08:32 PM

@#18 .. Using per capita crime rates in a commuter city like DC is really misleading. The DC population doubles during the day, so to be fair, you have to cut the per capita rate in half when comparing it to other cities. ...

Point taken.

But, the stats cited were year over year.

So, wouldn't that same ~dilution~ you cite also be applicable to prior years?

From the cited article ...

... There were 274 homicides in Washington in 2023 among a population of about 679,000 people, a rate of about 40.4 per 100,000 people. That was the highest rate in over 20 years, but not "ever." Moreover, the homicide rate has since declined. ...

The number of homicides declined by about a third in 2024 to 187 while the population grew to over 702,000 people, for a rate of 26.6 per 100,000. The recent trend of declining homicides appears to be holding, with 100 homicides as of Aug. 12, compared with 112 at the same point last year. ...

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 08:48 PM

@#30

Oops formatting error.

Should have been ...

... There were 274 homicides in Washington in 2023 among a population of about 679,000 people, a rate of about 40.4 per 100,000 people. That was the highest rate in over 20 years, but not "ever." Moreover, the homicide rate has since declined.

The number of homicides declined by about a third in 2024 to 187 while the population grew to over 702,000 people, for a rate of 26.6 per 100,000. The recent trend of declining homicides appears to be holding, with 100 homicides as of Aug. 12, compared with 112 at the same point last year. ...

Apologies.

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 08:50 PM

The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed.

#32 | Posted by homerj at 2025-08-15 03:11 AM

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