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D.C. crime statistics, national crime trends, prosecutions and public-safety claims. This page is an index: the full evidence, photo credits, videos and source ledger remain attached to the dated canonical record.
August 17, 2026 · FBI headquarters / Federal property / Court ruling
A federal judge ruled that the administration could not discard the congressionally constrained Greenbelt selection and shift the FBI headquarters project to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.
Open the full dated evidence record →August 16, 2026 · Washington / Justice Department
Trump continued to attribute the major Reflecting Pool damage to vandalism after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office moved to dismiss a felony case. The disclosed prosecution record instead tied widespread peeling to a rushed, flawed contractor installation; Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly defended Pirro’s evidentiary judgment on August 16 while noting that a witness had alleged a discrete act of vandalism.
Open the full dated evidence record →August 14, 2026 · Crime / Washington, D.C.
Trump said Washington was now one of the safest cities and that “crime is down 81%.” Current MPD year-to-date data do not show an 81% drop in overall crime.
Open the full dated evidence record →August 14, 2026 · Crime / National statistics
The FBI’s preliminary 2025 data support a large national decline in violent crime and homicide. The stronger claim that Trump’s policies caused the decline is not established by the data alone.
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