WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration takes control of D.C.'s police department in an effort to fight violent crime, U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro pushed back on anyone who pointed to crime being down .

Following President Donald Trump's announcement Monday that the Metropolitan Police Department would be under federal control under Section 740 of the Home Rule Act , D.C. leaders pointed to statistics that show crime in D.C. is on a downward trajectory.

“Crime in D.C. reached a 30-year low in 2024 and is down 26% this year compared to the same time period last year," D.C. Del Eleanor Holmes Norton said in a statement Monday.

But Pirro took issue with those statistics. During a press conference Tuesday, she showed two posters of young people under the age of 20 who were

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