{"id":18981,"date":"2025-08-12T19:52:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18981"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:52:58","slug":"trump-says-d-c-has-been-overtaken-by-crime-the-data-tells-a-different-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18981","title":{"rendered":"Trump says D.C. has been &#8216;overtaken&#8217; by crime. The data tells a different story."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Trump does have the power to oversee what happens in D.C. because of its unique role as home to the nation\u2019s seat of government. The law gives the president the power to temporarily take over the city\u2019s law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president\u2019s description of crime in Washington, D.C., is not reflected in official statistics, which show that the city had its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%2D%20Total%20violent%20crime%20for,Graves.\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lowest violent crime rate<\/a>&nbsp;in over 30 years in 2024.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/article\/trump-says-dc-has-been-overtaken-by-crime-the-data-tells-a-different-story-220200486.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/article\/trump-says-dc-has-been-overtaken-by-crime-the-data-tells-a-different-story-220200486.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trump does have the power to oversee what happens in D.C. because of its unique role as home to the nation\u2019s seat of government. The law gives the president the power to temporarily take over the city\u2019s law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s description of crime in Washington, D.C., is not reflected in official statistics, which show that the city had its lowest violent crime rate in over 30 years in 2024.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/article\/trump-says-dc-has-been-overtaken-by-crime-the-data-tells-a-different-story-220200486.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,299,280,902,221,170],"class_list":["post-18981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-crime-statistics","tag-criminal-justice","tag-dc","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18982,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18981\/revisions\/18982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}