The District of Columbia has gone 12 days without a single murder following President Trump’s federal takeover of DC police, a feat not seen since January, 2020, according to Metropolitan Police Department data analyzed by The Post.
The current streak of no killings is uncommon in a city that has already seen over 100 homicides in 2025, and averages nearly twice that in a typical year. The last recorded murder in the US capital was Aug. 13, two days after Trump announced the department would be federalized and the National Guard would be deployed on city streets.
“This town averaged 1 murder every other day for the last 20-30 years, which means in two short weeks the president and his team have saved six or seven lives, people who would have been killed on the streets of DC,” Vice Pr