Violent crime has declined dramatically in the District of Columbia since 2024, but can we trust the statistics? Washington Examiner reporter and author Anna Giaritelli discusses her book "Under Assault" and how her sexual assault in 2020 was left out of the DC police statistics, as well as how crime and illegal immigration are filtered through the elitist media.
Managing Editor Curtis Houck joined the show to draw details out of the book. The homicide rate so far this year is just 20, down 55 percent from 2025 at this point, and way down from the annual toll of 274 in 2023, under Biden. Many blue cities have seen a dramatic decline in crime, but who gets the credit? The liberal elitists of the media want to credit mayors, and make no connection to mass deportation of criminals under Trump.
Trump's deployment of the National Guard to DC was treated as wildly controversial when it began. It was considered unnecessary, provocative, a waste of money -- they showed troops standing around -- as if their presence didn't act as a deterrent. As crime went down, they didn't want to cover it any more.
Anna recently reported that ICE announced that 457,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Trump's second term, and of those, roughly 281,000 of them, or 61%, had criminal histories -- they've been convicted or they're currently facing charges. The 457,000 also included 1,600 known or suspected terrorists. Our media like to claim that most immigrants have no criminal histories, ignoring that illegal entry into the country or overstaying a visa is a crime.
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