President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., has had a noticeable effect on loitering at Union Station, a CNN reporter admitted Thursday.
Trump announced a federal takeover of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to combat crime in the district Monday, days after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward Coristine, known by the moniker “Big Balls,” was severely injured when he intervened to stop a mob from carrying out a carjacking. CNN reporter Gabe Cohen told “CNN News Central” guest co-host Jessica Dean that the number of people “hanging around” had gone down.
“This is one of the areas of focus that we have heard a lot of concerns about, crime around Union Station, people who are loitering outside,” Cohen told Dean. “I will tell you, as somebody who walks this route all the time, it does seem like there are fewer people just sort of hanging around, but we don’t know exactly what that is.”
Despite claims from Democrats that violent crime has declined by roughly one-third, MPD data on such incidents reportedly excludes cases of aggravated assault and felony assault, even though Washington laws characterize those offenses as violent.
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