Crime in the nation’s capital is dropping off steeply, following the president’s efforts to restore public safety and punish lawlessness. According to a report from The Daily Wire, the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) recorded only one homicide last month, compared to 10 homicides in January of 2025. The solitary homicide occurred on January 21, although another murder followed on February 2. The Washington Post reported that D.C. has not been homicide-free for 10 consecutive days in January in three decades.

Robberies, carjackings, burglaries, and vehicular thefts have all dropped by significant margins. According to The Washington Post’s analysis, January 2025 saw nearly 240 violent crimes in D.C., rising to almost 270 in May. In August, President Donald Trump authorized the National Guard and federal law enforcement agents to begin cracking down on crime in the capital, netting 1,000 arrests in the first month of federal control alone. Since then, violent crime has fallen steeply, standing now at fewer than 140 violent crimes as of last month. According to The Daily Wire, over 9,000 arrests have been made since August.

“We have had virtually no crime in D.C.,” the president told reporters Monday. “D.C. is now considered a very safe place, and it should be, it’s our nation’s capital.” Referring to the Post’s report, he said, “It was incredible, they were trying to determine how we got such low crime numbers, because we have very little crime, if any. And they talked about everything except for the fact that we deployed the National Guard and our great soldiers inside our city.” He quipped, “They didn’t want to mention that, how dishonest.”

“If we didn’t do that, you’d have tremendous crime in D.C. And I get thanked every single day by people that work in the White House — people, young ladies, men, they come up: ‘Thank you, sir, for making D.C. so safe.’ They walk to work now,” the president continued. “A year ago, they wouldn’t have walked to work. They would have been killed or mugged or something would have happened to them.” The president attributed the low crimes rates to the fact that “we have very big, strong, good-looking soldiers standing around, and I think they make the place look better.”

“The results are actually palpable,” U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said in an interview late last month, referring to the president’s efforts to tackle violent crime. “I mean, you can feel it, and you can see it on the street right now. Because of the surge that the President created in August of 2025, we have seen an incredible reduction in crime,” she added. “People are able to go out on the street and not be assaulted by some of the young crews that are out there committing violent crimes, possessing guns, shooting at each other.”

According to Pirro, homicides have dropped by 60% and violent crime overall has fallen by over 30%, with law enforcement seizing nearly 1,000 guns off the street. “That means those guns can no longer be used in carjackings, robberies, or homicides,” she explained. “There is a tremendous difference in Washington, D.C. now. And in terms of my office, we are prosecuting more cases than we’ve ever prosecuted, than have ever been prosecuted in the history of this District. We are listening to the police. We are taking their arrest, and we are prosecuting those cases.”

Pirro accused her predecessor Matthew Graves, appointed by former President Joe Biden, of failing to prosecute the vast majority of crime in the district. “It’s no surprise that under the Biden administration, crime was out of control, and that it took someone who simply believed in law and order, who understands what it takes to stop crime and to have the incredible results that we’re having right now,” she said. “And we’re working across the aisle, work[ing] with Mayor [Muriel] Bowser [D], work[ing] with the police chiefs, all of the Capitol chiefs, the federal law enforcement partners, and we’re making a big difference.”