By Celina Tebor, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump has taken aim in his second term at some of the country’s largest Democratic-run cities – Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC – sending in federal officers and, in some cases, the US military to aid immigration enforcement and root out what he calls rampant crime.

But one of his targets isn’t even among the country’s biggest 30 metro areas. Portland, Oregon – along the Willamette and Columbia rivers in a valley of Mount Hood – also fell short last year of the 30 largest US cities with the highest violent crime rates, according to the Real Time Crime Index – and its violent crime numbers have been dropping.

Though the president’s attacks on Portland have escalated in recent months – he’s described it as “war-ravaged” and tried to send

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