Border czar Tom Homan criticized the media on Monday for downplaying crime in Washington, D.C., by reporting it has plunged.

While legacy media outlets have reported that crime decreased by 35% in 2024, their figures rely on local police data that exclude offenses like felony and aggravated assault, thereby making the district’s crime problem seem better than it is since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Homan, on “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” challenged reporters to spend time on the streets late at night if the city is truly so “safe.”

“I’ve been in law enforcement for 40 years. I won’t transit D.C. without a gun,” Homan said. “And any of these reporters that said the crime rate is way down and it’s safer than they say, I dare any of them: walk the streets of D.C

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