Trump D.C. Crime Crackdown Already Seeing Hundreds Arrested

By William Teach August 17, 2025 – 7:00 am

One question now is “will they be held and tried for their crimes, or, will left wing loon judges release them with a slap on the wrist?”
Hundreds arrested as Trump’s Washington, DC, crime crackdown hits full stride
The Trump administration’s crackdown on violent crime in Washington, D.C., has already netted more than 240 arrests and taken 38 guns off the streets, a White House official told Fox News.
The show of force has swept up gang members, robbery suspects and immigration violators. On Friday alone, 52 people were arrested, including 28 illegal immigrants, while three guns were seized.
Federal teams also cleared 25 homeless encampments, and officials said those removals were carried out without confrontations or arrests.
White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller hailed the scale of the operations and said the numbers are “breathtaking.”
“We have seen a record number of violent offenders, bad guys, gang members and all kinds of threats to public safety removed off the streets as well as their illegal weapons that they’ve been using to terrorize the citizens of this city,” Miller told “Fox News Live.”
This is what Democrats are caterwauling about, what they’re fighting against.
Other arrests included drug distribution, weapons violations and outstanding warrants. Police also detained suspects accused of fleeing law enforcement, reckless driving, assault with a dangerous weapon and kidnapping.
Good, good
Trump Administration Live Updates: West Virginia and South Carolina Sending Troops to Boost Guard’s Presence in D.C.
West Virginia aid: Gov. Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia, a Republican, said on Saturday that he was sending 300 to 400 troops from the state’s National Guard to Washington at President Trump’s request. The troops are believed to be joining about 800 Washington National Guard members already there as part of Mr. Trump’s operation to fight crime in the nation’s capital that he has claimed is “out of control,” even though official data shows that it has been falling sharply.
That actually helps, considering the D.C. Police Dept was down about 800 officers.




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This is from the DC police department's website. Tell me again how Trump is out of line.



12:56 PM · Aug 12, 2025


And realize that many of those heat zones are happening in what would usually be safer neighborhoods, because that’s where the nice cars are




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8:25 PM · Aug 16, 2025

They’re really whining about cleaning up crime and the homeless. I wonder how many actually live in D.C.?

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