WASHINGTON — Homicides within the nation’s capital dropped an eye-popping 60%, whereas carjackings took a nosedive of 68%, and total crime dropped 32% when evaluating the top of 2024 to 2025, US Legal professional for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro touted on Tuesday.
Pirro credited President Trump’s crackdown on Washington, DC, for the exceptional plunge in crime, whereas acknowledging hassle with a 59% spike in strangulation that her group is engaged on addressing.
“The story begins with the affect of President Trump’s govt order [on] making DC secure and exquisite,” Pirro, who started her job final Might, informed reporters throughout a press convention. “It’s unimaginable.”
Her group clarified that the comparability is between August-December 2024 and August-December 2025 as an instance the advantages of Trump’s surge of assets to DC to fight crime.
The timeframe she used reveals an much more dramatic plunge in crime than comparisons between the complete yr of 2025 vs 2024, throughout which homicides fell 32% and complete crime sunk 17%, per information from DC’s Metropolitan Police Division.
That dip in crime final yr got here on the heels of violent crime in DC hitting a 30-year low on the finish of 2024. However Pirro was skeptical of the prior information.
“As most of you recognize, there have been some points with the stats from MPD, which truly, as we replicate on it, make it clear the crime is down greater than we even thought, as a result of crime was actually increased than they have been truly reporting,” Pirro cautioned.
Final yr, the GOP-led Home Oversight Committee revealed a report alleging that the MPD’s information on crime in DC was rife with flaws and undercounted varied kinds of lawbreaking.
Pirro was assured that the latest numbers for 2025, displaying a large lower in crime throughout her transient tenure as DC’s prime federal prosecutor, are legit.
“Subsequent week, [we are] going over the MPD and dealing with them on the entire classifications of the crimes, the way it’s being finished,” she informed The Submit when requested about why she trusts the info now. “There’s a new chief now. I’m very comfy with what’s occurring.”
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser tapped Jeffery Carroll as the brand new interim Chief of Police for the MPD final month.
As for the blemish of rising strangulation on the in any other case rosy crime file on DC, Pirro acknowledged the necessity to “do extra to guard victims of home violence.”
“Let it’s identified to the ladies on this district that if a person places a hand in your neck … you might be in critical hazard, and it’s time to go away,” she confused. “If in case you have been the sufferer of a strangulation, there’s an 800% likelihood that he’ll kill you. It’s time to go away.”
“It’s solely lately that strangulation was raised from a misdemeanor to a felony,” she added. “We now have additionally finished in depth police coaching on this to let the police know the sorts of questions that they should ask.”
General, the large decline in DC lawbreaking dovetails with a dramatic drop in crime nationwide, the place consultants expect the only greatest one-year fall in homicides recorded in US historical past.
Since final August, following the mugging of former Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) worker, Edward Coristine, often known as “Large Balls,” Trump has deployed the Nationwide Guard to patrol the streets of DC.
There are presently over 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops stationed in DC, per the Pentagon, even after the ambush gun assault close to the White Home on two West Virginia Nationwide Guard members on Nov. 26, that left Sarah Beckstrom lifeless and Andrew Wolfe wounded.
Trump additionally briefly took management of the MPD and surged federal regulation enforcement personnel within the nation’s capital.
“We’re prosecuting crime like by no means earlier than within the District of Columbia, fewer than 10% of the instances go unprosecuted, in comparison with nearly 70% of the instances that went unprosecuted within the final administration,” she mentioned.
She is hoping to push the DC Council, or Congress, which might override native legal guidelines within the nation’s capital, to permit for more durable prosecution in opposition to juveniles and scrap the Second Likelihood Modification Act of 2022, which allows the expungement of sure felony data.
The highest federal prosecutor in DC vowed to maintain up the hassle to fight crime in 2026.
“To the criminals who thought that DC was a simple goal, these days are over,” she declared. “We’re constructing on the momentum from 2025 with much more assets devoted to the rising threats like cyber crime and arranged crime rings.”
