Expert challenges Democrats’ DC crime statistics after Trump action

Democrats all over the country were pushing President Trump Trump’s campaign, referring to the statistics that the crime in the country’s capital has decreased or even at its lowest historical levels, but the expert who spoke to Fox News digital retracts that narration.

“These Democrats are citing statistics from the FBI from its unified report,” Jim Agrristte, head of the Non -profit research Institute, told Fox News Digital shortly after the declaration of federal resources to the nation’s capital in the city.

“In fact, what is the record of the crimes reported to the police, then those of those crimes that are informed to the FBI. It is not a full record of all violent crimes, and this is a problem with local police agencies.”

While many prominent Democrats, including Mayor Morel Boser, insisted that violent crime in the lowest level in the city for 30 years, I told Agresti Fox News Digital “the best way to understand the violent crime” in any judicial state is to look at the number of killing because it is a violent crime that is difficult to sweep under the carpet “because it” produces a dead product “.

A woman was shot dead in the “safe” neighborhood of the capital, where Trump fired a federal police.

“When we look at DC’s killing data, we see that it is not a lower situation now than in the past thirty years. The exact opposite,” Agresti explained. “It is currently 83 % higher than it was on the low point ten years ago. So, there is a serious problem in a serious crime, a violent crime in the capital, and the city now, the country’s capital, has a five -fold murder rate.”

The chances of a person who faces a violent crime in Washington, DC, decreased in recent years, but the possibility of death during such a crime has increased, as data shows, Fox News digital It was mentioned on Wednesday.

The study found that the girl in the capital jumped by 341 % huge when compared to 2012 data, and the study informed that there were 13 murders per 1,000 violent crimes in 2012 and 57 murders per 1,000 violent crimes in 2024.

Agresti explained that while many people work with the belief that the crime has risen throughout the country during the cause of Covid, the case actually began to exacerbate in particular when riots erupted in black life.

The employee in Capitol Hill stabbed the head, and the chest welcomes Trump Washington, DC.

Members of the National Guard Control Entrances in the graduation area in local and federal law enforcement agencies within the United States Police Operations facility on August 12, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Creej Hudson Lashinton Post via Getti Emiez)

“This is very logical.” “The police were distorted. They withdrew from the fear of being harmed. People were talking about the police neglect, and there was generally chaos in this country. So, this height, by the way, that people blamed Kovid in reality that did not start with Kovid, and did not appear in other countries.

Agresti Fox News Digital told that there is a “clear relationship” between the crime in the United States and “Defund the Police” and that most people do not understand the “full range” of the crime problem in this country.

““We had nearly 17,000 murders last year,” I explained Agrotetti. “Imagine if all of them issued national news. Based on the current rate of murders in this province, nearly one in every 230 people in the United States will reduce their lives because of their killing. These statistics are very incredible.”

In addition to “amazing” Facts about killingAgrotetti said Data has been collected Through fair facts, one in 10 women appear in the United States that are raped during their lives.

“Think about that, and beyond this pain, suffering, and death, there is also a financial cost of the crime. It has been quantitative in the 2021 academic paper, the bottom line, crime in all its forms, pain, death, financial loss, and activities that we take to prevent crime, and it amounts to the cost on the US economy, which is approximately $ 40,000 for all of the United States. “

Questions were also raised about local crime statistics from the capital, which shows the crime that has decreased so far this year, as many news reports indicated that the capital police chief had been suspended recently due to the change of crime data.

Agresti said that anyone who can statistics of crime “cherry” to enhance a specific agenda, but it is also important to realize that many crimes are not reported as well due to various factors, including hostility towards the police or the belief that contacting the police will not achieve results.

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“The vast majority of the crime is not reported, and another disturbing phenomenon is the amount of crimes that have been resolved.” “In this country, it was customary, in 1960, that 92 % of all murders were resolved. In 2023, this number decreased to 58 %, which means 40 percent of people who committed murders, and they were there to commit them again.”

As of Thursday, 800 National Guard forces authorized in Washington, DC, supported other federal law enforcement agencies “memorial security, community safety patrols, protecting federal facilities and employees, and traffic control sites and the region’s beautification,” according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

President Donald Trump refers to the White House dining room on August 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiesfelbein)

Trump’s move to abandon the crime in the capital, which the White House says, is causing levels raised by dwarf capitals in other poorest countries all over the world, has sparked protests led by liberal activists and anger from some elected Democrats, including the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez.

“When politicians say, “You don’t have to worry about this, it’s the lowest crime rate in 30 years,” They are abandoning their responsibility, “said Agresti Fox News Digital.

“The declaration of independence said that governments have been established to protect people’s rights, including their lives, their liberalization and the pursuit of happiness. What we have now is many politicians and governments who are doing a very bad work in it, and pain and suffering is incredible.

Emma Colon of Fox News Digitter contributed to this report