As RedState reported, President Donald Trump announced on Monday during a White House presser that he was federalizing law enforcement in our nation's capital, citing "out of control" crime in Washington, D.C., including rampant gang activity, homeless crime, and repeat offenders.

"I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse," Trump stated. "This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back." He also noted that the National Guard would be deployed.

"I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly," he shared.

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Trump's announcement came in the aftermath of some recent high-profile violent crimes in D.C., including the June 30 murder of Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, who was an intern for Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS), and the violent August 3rd assault on former DOGE staffer Edward Coristine, 19, who reportedly was coming to the defense of a woman who was allegedly being carjacked.

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media and Democrats oppose the move, citing questionable crime statistics for D.C. that are now the subject of an investigation. 

As that investigation plays out, the Washington Post, of all places, filed a report underscoring the fact that, rising crime rates or not, the residents of Washington, D.C. don't feel safe:

Hours after Coristine was attacked, residents in a nearby block were rattled awake by shouting on their usually quiet, tree-lined street. One person described peeking out their window and seeing a rowdy crowd of youngsters, some in masks. Later, they saw a young man, beaten and bloodied.

When D.C. police arrived, “all parties had fled the scene and the officers had nothing found,” according to a department spokesperson. When asked whether there were other incidents in the area in the predawn hours of last Sunday, the spokesperson said “there were unfounded reports of suspicious groups; however, officers did not locate any such groups.

They then reported that residents were "unnerved" by what happened, and quoted one who didn't want to be named due to safety concerns, who, strangely, said "bad" things were happening that needed to be addressed, but that Trump was "wrong" about D.C.:

And those are the types of things that, while they don't always make it into crime reports, contribute to the atmosphere of feeling unsafe.

I'm not in D.C., but I can tell you about things that have happened here in Charlotte that we never see in crime reports, but that still rattle residents. 

Nearly every day on the NextDoor app, someone is sharing videos from their Ring cameras of groups of young people casing neighborhoods, with some of them testing vehicles to see if they're unlocked and some of them ringing doorbells, pretending the resident has their cell phone or iPad because the person's "locator" says it was at that address.

We've had people knock on our door and say they need to either borrow our phone or be able to access our wifi in what are obvious scams.

There are also the countless "shots fired" posts on Nextdoor, where the location where the shots were fired can rarely ever be determined.

We've had neighbors report seeing shell casings on sidewalks at community cut-throughs, information that suddenly makes the shots you've heard presumably being fired into the air nearby the night before all the more concerning.

These and others are issues that often don't get reported to the police for myriad reasons. Some may feel nothing will be done. Some may feel they don't have enough information that would be useful to the police. Some may feel like it doesn't rise to the level of a crime or an attempted crime, though they felt and maybe still feel unsafe.

Whatever the case may be, one should always look beyond the numbers seen in official reports before drawing conclusions on how safe - or not - an area is.

Editor's Note: The days of lawlessness in Washington, D.C. are over. Thanks to President Trump, our nation's capital will be SAFE once again.

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