{"id":337012,"date":"2025-08-11T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337012\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:57:10","slug":"is-crime-in-washington-really-out-of-control-as-trump-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337012\/","title":{"rendered":"Is crime in Washington really out of control as Trump claims?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Violent crime is reported differently by the MPDC and the FBI &#8211; another major source of US crime statistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MPDC public data showed a 35% fall for 2024, while the FBI data showed a 9% drop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So the figures agree that crime is falling in DC, but differ on the level of that decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The downward trend is &#8220;unmistakable and large&#8221;, according to Adam Gelb, the CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ), a legal think tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The numbers shift depending on what time period and what types of crime you examine,&#8221; said Mr Gelb. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But overall there&#8217;s an unmistakable and large drop in violence since the summer of 2023, when there were peaks in homicide, gun assaults, robbery, and carjacking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Violent crime is reported differently by the MPDC and the FBI &#8211; another major source of US crime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-337012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012845322288396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}