Is Violent Crime in Washington, DC at 30-year low?

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Critics have expressed skepticism at data coming from the Metropolitan Police Department of the U.S. capital. Snopes looked at FBI data.

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Many of the details the president cited do not stand up to scrutiny. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4mjC4FY [image or embed]
-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Aug 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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... The nation's capital is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," Trump said at an Aug. 11 press conference. "Washington, D.C., should be one of the safest, cleanest and most beautiful cities anywhere in the world, and we're going to make it that." ...

The number of military stationed in Washington, DC is a not a large number compared to the number of law enforcement people usually there.

It looks like the purpose of the deployment is more for optics than anything else. But why?

Yet another Epstein distraction attempt?

Trying to normalize Pres Trump's dispatching of military against civilians?

???

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 03:18 PM