United States President Donald Trump revealed that he will announce on Monday (11) measures to stop the “violent crime” in Washington DC the city has presented the rate of 41 murders per 100,000 people, higher than that of Rio de Janeiro, where this rate is 24.3.
The announcement happens after sending federal agents to Washington on Saturday (9). Trump has also threatened to take the city’s federal control that, in 1973, was no longer controlled by Congress after nearly 200 years.
“On Monday there will be a press conference in the White House that essentially will deter the violent crime in Washington, DC,” the Republican wrote on his social network “Truth Social”.
According to the president, the US capital has become one of the most violent cities in the world. However, “soon it will be one of the safest!” He promised.
The agent insisted on the subject after a former employee of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) was the victim of an attempted car theft.
Action divides opinions in the USA
Vice President JD Vance shared a chart that shows a 41 murders per 100,000 people in Washington, above the capitals of countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Cuba.
However, Democrats deny that there is so much violence in the city, where data from the Metropolitan Police report that violent crimes would have fallen 26% this year, with a 12% reduction in homicides and 20% in weapons robberies.
“To threaten the federal government to take control of Washington, DC is absurd and dangerous,” said Federal Congressman Democratic Mark Desaulnier on social network X.
The Washington Post newspaper, on the other hand, argued in an editorial on Saturday (9) that the federal intervention that Trump proposes would not be “a sustainable model to make the capital safer.”
