Trump claims DC crime higher to Bogota, Mexico

President Donald Trump said that crimes in Washington, DC, won data from the notoriously violent cities in countries like Mexico and Colombia at his press conference on Monday morning announcing that he federalizes the DC police service to limit spiral violence.

“The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico, some of the places you hear about as the worst places on the earth, much higher,” Trump said on Monday. “It’s much higher. The number of car flights has doubled in the past five years, and the number of carjacking has more than tripled. The murders in 2023 have reached the highest rate, probably never. They say 25 years old, but they don’t know what it means because it goes back to 25 years cannot be worse.”

Trump has led graphics showing the media that the national capital would undergo crime trends worse than other cities in the world, calling them to “take a look at the figures” when he allowed the conclusions of the data.

“Look at them. Baghdad is … We have doubled on Baghdad. Panama City, Brasilia, San Jose, Costa Rica, Bogota, Colombia. Hexico. Mexico. The figures we have.

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President Donald Trump speaks to the press of the deployment of federal law enforcement agents in Washington to strengthen the presence of local police, while the American defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, turns the turn, in the White House press room, in Washington DC, United States, August 11, 2025. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters) (Reuters)

Fox News Digital contacted the White House for copies of graphics, data and its quotes, but did not immediately receive a response. The Rapid Response X account of the White House displayed one of the crime statistics graphics on Monday, showing the DC murder rate in 2024, SAT at 27.54 per 100,000 – would have been greater than statistics in cities like Bogota and Mexico City.

The nation overall experienced an increase in violent crimes in 2020, when demonstrations and riots broke out in the cities of the country at the height of the pandemic. This year has marked an increase of almost 30% of murders compared to the previous year, according to FBI data, marking the largest increase of one year since the murders since the agency began to follow crimes.

President Donald Trump speaks to the press, accompanied by the American prosecutor General Pam Bondi and the Secretary of the United States of Defense Pete Hegseth, about the deployment of federal laws of the law application in Washington to strengthen the presence of the local police, in the White House press room, in Washington DC, US, US, US, August 1125. Reuters) (Reuters)

The national capital in the following years has been shaken by shots that have left innocent children slaughtered, a trend of minors committing the diversions of cars that have become fatal in some cases, display crimes and attacks against government employees, summer trainees and others, including the deadly trainee of the 21 -year -old congress, Eric Tarpinien-Jachym, in June.

Trump announced on Monday that he united the local police service from Monday under article 740 of the Columbia district rule law, which allows the president to assume emergency control of the capital’s police forces.

President Donald Trump announced on August 11, 2025 that he federalized the local police service under article 740 of the Columbia district law. (Fox News Photo / Joshua Comins)

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“It is the Liberation Day at DC, and we will resume our capital,” he said. “We take it up under the authority which is the President of the United States, I officially invoke article 740 of the law on the rule of the District of Columbia.