Despite President Donald Trump declaring a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital in mid August– deploying the National Guard and other federal offices– new statistics reveal that many of the people arrested since that time were not violent criminals.

Nearly 40% of the more than 3,500 arrests made in D.C. since the Aug. 11 start of the 30-day federal officers surge were immigration related, according to federal data published by CBS News .

Immigration and Customs Enforcement alone accounted for roughly 1,400 of those arrests, most of them administrative — not criminal — detentions. That means people were seized for civil violations such as overstaying visas or entering the country without authorization, not for violent offenses.

By late September, ICE agents were visiting more than

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