{"id":64380,"date":"2025-08-12T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:33:08","slug":"live-updates-national-guard-troops-arrive-in-washington-dc-on-trumps-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64380\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: National Guard troops arrive in Washington DC on Trump’s orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BBCWhat do statistics show about violent crime in Washington DC?published at 17:10 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

17:10 BST<\/p>\n

President Trump has made repeated references to rising crime in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he pledged to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime” and spoke of violent gangs prowling its streets.<\/p>\n

Official crime statistics – published by Washington\u2019s Metropolitan Police , external<\/a> – show violent offences fell between 2023 and 2024, and are continuing to fall, according to preliminary data for 2025.<\/p>\n

The data for this year to date suggests that robbery has fallen by more than a quarter and homicides by 12%, compared with the same time last year.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a difference in how crime figures are published by DC police and by the FBI. In 2024, for example, DC police data shows a 35% fall in violent crime while the FBI\u2019s data shows a 9% drop.<\/p>\n

So the figures agree that crime is falling in DC, but differ on the level of that decline.<\/p>\n

Nationally, violent crime in the US fell 4.5% between 2023 and 2024, according to the latest FBI estimates, external<\/a>. These figures only include crimes that are reported to the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do statistics show about violent crime in Washington DC?published at 17:10 British Summer Time 17:10 BST President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-64380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}