Homicides are down about 17% so far this year in Washington, D.C., according to the city’s Metropolitan Police Department.

In Atlanta, the decline is even larger: a 25% drop over the same time last year, according to police.

And according to the FBI, violent crimes decreased 4.5% nationwide in 2024 from the previous year, with homicides dropping 14.9% during the same time period. Violence and property crime rates, per 100,000 people, are higher in Washington, D.C., than in Georgia but were declining well before the federal government stepped in, FBI data shows.

But as President Donald Trump took over the Washington, D.C., police force and deployed the National Guard to the nation’s capital last month, he cited dire crime statistics. Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday said he is deploying more th

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