Trump claims D.C. crime rates higher than Bogota, Mexico City as he acts

President Donald Trump has claimed crimes in Washington, DC, and to promote data from violent, notorious cities in countries such as Mexico and Colombia during his press conference on Monday morning, announcing that he is studying the Capital Police Department to reduce violence.

“The killing rate in Washington today is higher than the Bogota rate, Colombia, Mexico City, and some places you hear about as the worst places on earth,” Trump said on Monday. “This is much higher.

Trump has cleared the plans that the media shows that the country’s capital suffers from crime trends worse than other cities around the world, and called them to “take a look at the numbers” while threatening data results.

“Look at this. Baghdad is … we multiplied on Baghdad. Panama, Brazilia, San Jose, Costa Rica, Bogota, Colombia. Heavy drugs. Mexico City, mentioned Lima, Peru, are all double and its example. Among the numbers.

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Fox News Digital connects to the White House to get copies of plans, data and categories, but she did not receive a response immediately. The RSPONSE RespOONSE X account in the White House was published in the White House one of the graphs of crime on Monday, showing the murder rate in 2024 at 27.54 per 100,000 – it is said to be higher than statistics in cities such as Bogota and Mexico City.

The nation generally witnessed a rise in violent crimes in 2020, when protests and riots erupted in cities throughout the country at the height of the epidemic. That year has achieved a 30 % increase in murders compared to the previous year, according to the data of the FBI, which represents the largest increase in killings in one year since the agency began tracking crimes.

US President Donald Trump talks to the press, accompanied by US Prosecutor Bam Bondi and US Defense Secretary Beit Higseth, about the publication of federal law enforcement agents in Washington to support the presence of the local police in the White House press briefing room, in Washington, DC, August 11, 2025. (Reuters)

The country’s capital has been shook in the following years due to the shooting that left innocent children who opened fire and death, a trend of events committing the robbery that has turned into fatal in some cases, theft of crimes and attacks on government employees, summer trainees and others, including the deadly shooting of the 21 -year -old trainee in congress, in June, in June.

Trump announced on Monday that he was studying the local police department on Monday, according to Article 740 of the Colombia Provincial Ruling Law, which allows the president to take over the emergency control of the Capital Police Force.

On August 11, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that he was studying the local police department under Article 740 of the Colombia Provincial Law. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

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“This is the liberation day in the capital, and we will return our capital,” he said. “We are returning it under the authority that was created for me as President of the United States. I formally call Article 740 of the Colombia Provincial Law.