Are the crimes in Washington come out of control, according to Trump?

President Donald Trump said he would deploy hundreds of troops of the National Guard in Washington and is under control of the police department to combat crime.

At a press conference, he announced a “Liberation Day” for the city and pledged “to save the capital of our country from crimes, bloodshed, poor and unhappy and worse.”

However, Washington mayor Muriel Bowzer said there was a huge decline in crime in the city and that it is “on a 30-year violent crime”.

The BBC checks as they show that they show violent crimes in the capital and how it is compared to other US cities.

The executive order of Trump, which proclaims a “state of emergency in the District of Colombia” mentions “the growth of violence in the capital”. In his press conference, he repeatedly referred to a crime that was “under control”.

But, according to crimes published by the Washington Capital Police (MPDC), violent crimes fell after reaching the maximum in 2023, and in 2024 reached the lowest level in 30 years.

They continue to fall, according to preliminary data for 2025.

This year, a violent crime decreased by 26% compared to the same item in 2024, and the robbery decreased by 28%, According to MPDC.

The Trump and the Union Police Union have questioned the truth of the city police crimes.

MPDC and FBI are another major source of US crimes statistics.

MPDC public data showed that by 2024 the fall by 35%, while the FBI data showed a 9%drop.

Thus, the figures agree that the crime falls in a constant current, but differ in the level of this decline.

According to Adam Gelba, CEO of Criminal Justice Council (CCJ), the tendency to reduce “unmistakable and great”.

“The numbers change depending on what time and what types of crime you study,” Gelb said.

“But overall there is an unmistakable and great drop in violence since the summer of 2023, when there were tops in murder, attacks on weapons, robbery and entry into the variety.”

Trump also claimed that “the killings in 2023 reached the highest speed, probably when -” in Washington – adding that the figures “just return 25 years”.

When we asked the White House a source for numbers, they said it was “the figures provided by the FBI”.

According to the FBI, the level of killings made a spike in 2023 to about 40 per 100,000 inhabitants – the highest level in 20 years.

However, this was not the highest record -it was much higher in the 1990s and the early 2000s.

The level of killings fell in 2024, and this year it fell by 12% at the same moment last year, According to MPDC.

Suggested research What the capital’s murder level is higher than the average, compared to other major US cities.

As of August 11, there were 99 murders in Washington, including a 21-year-old Congress, who was shot dead in CrossFire, the right Trump was mentioned at his press conference.

The President also mentioned the case of a 19-year-old former government’s employee (DOGE), who was injured in allegedly trying to withdraw the capital in early August.

Over the past five years, Trump has claimed that “the number of edges are more than three times”.

So far this year, MPDC recorded 189 settlement crimesdeclined from 300 over the same period last year.

According to the CCJ, in June 2023 in June 2023 in June 2023. In June 2023, in June 2023, in June 2023, the monthly peak was markedly 140.

Since July 2025, there has been a curfew in the city for people who have not reached 17 years from 23:00 to 06:00.

It was entered To fight minors – Including the site – which is often spikes in the summer months.

“The level of violence in the county remains mostly higher than the average of three dozen cities in our model,” Mr. Gelb of CCJ told us.

“Although its reduction tendency corresponds to what we see in other major cities across the country,” he added.

Ccj looks at Crime coefficient in 30 major US cities.

Its analysis suggests that the level of killings in DC decreased 19% in the first half of this year (January-June 2025) compared to the same period last year.

This is a slightly more drop than the average reduction by 17% in cities in CCJ study.

However, if you take the first six months of 2025 and compare it with the same period of 2019 – before the COVID -19 pandemic – it shows only 3% of the fall in the killings.

In 30 cities in the study, this decrease was 14% in the same time.