Trump Orders The FBI To The Streets Of Washington DC

Despite what the official numbers say, Washington DC has a large crime problem. Specifically, juvenile crime. And President Trump is determined to change that.

There have been some fairly high profile crimes in Washington DC over the last year, but carjackings have grabbed the headlines – mainly because they are often committed by teenagers or young adults. In one story about a carjacking murder in June 2024, local news provided some statistics.

D.C. saw carjackings more than double in 2023. In 2024 thus far, carjackings are down 33% compared to the same period last year, MPD data shows. Police say 69% of the crimes involve guns, 68% involve juveniles and 90% of arrestees report to be D.C. residents.

The Washington Post claims that violent crime in the DC area has decreased, while admitting that there are still many attacks that don’t make the news.

D.C. police have made about 900 juvenile arrests this year — almost 20 percent fewer than during the same time frame last year. About 200 of those charges are for violent crimes, and at least four dozen are for carjacking. This summer, D.C. officials have also implemented stricter curfew laws for teens in response to concerns about large brawls — recorded in videos that spread on social media — breaking out in communities across the city.

Violent crime in D.C. has been on the decline since 2023, when a generational spike in killings rendered the nation’s capital one of America’s deadliest cities, plunging communities into grief and igniting a local political crisis that escalated to Congress.

The decrease is part of a nationwide drop that in 2024 brought homicide rates to their lowest level in decades. This year, homicides are down more than 30 percent in data that The Washington Post collected from more than 100 police departments in large U.S. cities. Reports of burglaries and robberies also dipped by double-digit percentages.

But even those numbers saying Washington DC has declining crime are now suspect, thanks to accusations that a Metropolitan Police commander was deliberately changing the crime data – and local news didn’t learn about the accusations until the middle of July.

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.

The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year.

Pulliam — the former commander of the 3rd District that patrols Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights — was placed on leave with pay and told he was under investigation for questionable changes to crime data, five law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told News4.

Union officials said there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics.

“When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Gregg Pemberton said. “So, instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.”

The police department’s command staff is focusing on two categories in order to get the numbers to fall, Pemberton said: armed with a dangerous weapon and injured person to the hospital.

“When management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they’re going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault, felony assault is not a category of crime that’s listed on the department’s daily crime stats,” Pemberton said. “It’s also not something that’s a requirement of the FBI’s uniform crime reporting program. So, by changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense.”

The union has been gathering evidence for some time now by looking at reports and talking with officers all over the city, Pemberton said.

“What we’ve heard through our members and through members of management that were willing to talk with the union is that this is a directive from the command staff, is that they wanna make sure that these classifications of these reports are adjusted over time to make sure that the overall crime stats stay down,” Pemberton said. “And this is deliberately done.”

Add into that report the murder of a 21 year old Congressional aide in early July, who was an unintentional bystander to a gunfight that ended up killing him, and the attempted carjacking and beating of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine this last week, where two 15 year olds have been arrested and the police are searching for the rest of the assailants. It’s little surprise that with these higher profile stories, Washington DC does not look safe.

President Trump has had enough, and he’s planned for a press conference to take place today regarding the status of Washington DC.

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But Trump has already made a move to put more law enforcement on the streets – and they are already present in DC.

The FBI has begun dispatching agents in overnight shifts to help local law enforcement prevent carjackings and violent crime in Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital and considers calling up the National Guard.

A decision on calling up the Guard could come as soon as Monday, when Trump plans a news conference at the White House on crime in D.C., according to a U.S. official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation.

In recent days, the administration has authorized up to 120 agents, largely from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, to work overnight shifts for at least one week alongside D.C. police and other federal law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital, according to the people familiar with those efforts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss specifics of a staffing plan that has not been made public.

The deployment of FBI agents to deal with local crime puts agents from the bureau’s counterintelligence, public corruption and other divisions with minimal training in traffic stops out on the streets in potentially dangerous encounters, diverting them from their typical jobs at the bureau. And it comes as Trump is publicly portraying the city as rampant with violent crime — even as the mayor refutes that characterization, pointing to police data showing a drop in violent crime.

Last week, Trump ordered federal law enforcement agents from several agencies to be deployed on city streets and called for more juveniles to be charged in the adult justice system.

The Washington Post story is hyperventilating over putting FBI agents on the streets to act like law enforcement. Oh, the HORROR. Now, there are obviously some things the FBI probably shouldn’t be doing – like traffic stops, because they aren’t effectively trained for that – but that is why OTHER law enforcement agencies, plus the Metropolitan Police Department, are out there.

Federal land is scattered across Washington, and local enforcement often works alongside federal law enforcement to patrol these and surrounding areas. But the U.S. Park Police and Secret Service — which have more experience patrolling streets — typically do this work, not the FBI.

The Secret Service and the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division have also been directed to launch special patrols in D.C., according to a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation.

While I realize that there is probably a whole lot of angst from Washington DC career desk jockeys at the FBI who are now being told to get out there and act like law enforcement, I have a very hard time scraping up any sympathy for them. The reality is that they ARE law enforcement, they just deal with white collar crime or cybercrime and rarely get their hands dirty with things like overnight shifts.

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Hey guys – you took the oath, you got the badge, you get out there. But the entire point of putting the FBI out there, along with the uniformed Secret Service and the Park Police, is to send a message. President Trump wants DC to be safer. We’ll see what he actually says during today’s press conference. But he is entirely correct – the capital of the United States should be a safe place that will not tolerate crime or perpetual homelessness. Those who live in DC, and those who work there, should be able to live and move freely without threats of gunfights or carjacking. Trump has a lot of authority within Washington DC, due to it being a federal district, and despite the Home Rule Act, there is a lot that the president could do. What he wants to do will be a part of what we hear today at the White House.

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