Yes, major indicators — from Washington, D.C., metropolitan police records to the FBI — show that crime rates are down in the ...

False claims about violent crime in the capital are the president's pretext for a sweeping assault on unhoused residents.

FBI data shows crimes based on sexual orientation were the third most common bias-motivated incidents in 2024.

Radley Balko argues that Donald Trump's federalization of Washington, D.C. is driven by projecting power rather than ...

US President Donald Trump says Washington, DC’s homicide rate is higher than ’the worst places on Earth’, with the White House citing cities like Islamabad and Bogotá. But the numbers tell a different ...

President Donald Trump inaccurately claimed that the murder rate in Washington, D.C., "reached the highest rate probably ever ...

Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order declaring “a crime emergency in the District of Columbia,” citing ...

President Donald Trump said the federal government will take control of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department.

The latest example of "gaslighting" in Australian academia comes courtesy of Griffith University’s Samara McPhedran, who has informed the nation that violent crime isn’t rising, writes John Mac ...

For instance, ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips mentioned on-air hours after Trump’s declaration that she was “jumped” just two ...

President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration will take over policing the nation's capital city in what the Republican said is an effort to bring down rising crime rates in Washington, D.

Violent crime has declined after a sharp post-pandemic spike in 2023. Trump has called in the National Guard anyway as he ...