As President Donald Trump declared Washington, D.C., a crime-ridden wasteland in need of federal intervention last week and threatened similar federal interventions in other Black-led cities, several mayors compared notes.

The president's characterization of their cities contradicts the drop in violent crime they saw after a COVID-19 pandemic spike. In some cases, the declines were monumental, due in large part to more youth engagement, gun buyback programs and community partnerships.

Now, members of the African American Mayors Association are determined to stop Trump from burying their accomplishments. They're using the administration's unprecedented law enforcement takeover in the nation's capital as an opportunity to disprove his narrative about some of the country's greatest urban en

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