The FBI’s new mission? Handling minor traffic incidents in DC
President Donald Trump has deployed FBI agents to combat deadly crimes in Washington, DC, but crime is a 30 -year calendar in the city. The FBI will reallocate 120 agents to make night patrols in Washington – a city of 68 square miles and just over 700,000 inhabitants. These agents will be withdrawn from their other tasks to serve Trump’s pet project.
Trump’s justification for this decision is that crime in the city is supposed to be out of control. In a social message lunditruth He wrote“Washington, DC will be released today! Crime, savagery, dirt and foam will disappear. I will again do our capital!
He also required that the homeless leave DC
The crime has broken down to DC as the FBI itself explained in a January statement, crime levels in the city are 30 years old – a decline that occurred under former president Joe Biden.
“Total violent crime for 2024 in the Columbia district is down 35% compared to 2023 and is the lowest that it has been for more than 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department”, the department of metropolitan police “, the department The agency said at the time.
Unlike Trump’s rhetoric, since Trump sent agents, they have been dealing with much more banal business. NPR reported This Sunday evening, at least two dozen agents were on the spot to respond to a minor traffic accident between a car and a moped. It is not something that needs more than a response from the local police–DC has a police force more than 3,000 officers.
Washington Post Drew Harwell writer noted the absurdity of Trump’s actions, publishing a video in which armed federal agents crossed a quiet DC while the joggers passed in front of them.
In addition to FBI assets, Trump said on Monday That he had declared an emergency to DC and sent troops from the National Guard to make the capital one of the “safest, cleanest and most beautiful cities in the world”. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the National Guard soon patrolled the streets – a development that the ploting on the right accused plot democrats to perform for decades.
Washington, the mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, questioned the effectiveness of such a decision. “I just think that this is not the most effective use of our guard,” she said on Sunday on “The Weekend” of MSNBC, recognizing that it is “the president’s call on how to deploy the goalkeeper”.
Trump and its allies In the conservative media like Fox News, exciting an alleged crime of crime at DC–where most of the population is black, while its administration faces a multitude of failures and scandals.
THE The economy vacillatesShaken by Trump’s decision to impose massive prices on foreign imports. Recent unemployment reports show that Trump’s prices cause an increase in unemployment, and he responded by pushing theories of the absurd conspiracy on government data.
Simultaneously, his administration was criticized by the right and the left For having refused to disclose information from the government on Trump’s friend and the sex offender sentenced Jeffrey Epstein and his sex trafficking network.
Under the Attorney General Pam Bondi, the FBI patrols in the streets of Washington instead of revealing the alleged list of Epstein customers and other affiliated documents. Asset pursued The Wall Street Journal for having pointed out that its name would have come to a scan of the FBI of files related to Epstein. Trump prefers the emphasis on his alleged difficult approach to crime than on the economy or Scandals linked to pedophiles.
But his presidency showed a penchant for criminals. He pardoned hundreds of people involved in the January 6 attack on the American Capitol and Some of them have already returned to a crime life. Simultaneously, his decision to use ice to harass and kidnap migrants Given a green light to the country’s criminals to pretend to be ice as a pretext to commit crimes.
And of course, Trump himself is A condemned criminal Of 34 counts, which means that one of Washington’s best known criminals allegedly declared war against crime.
