D.c. Democrats Rebuke Mayor Muriel Bowser's Comments That Trump's Surge Reduced Crime

Another Democratic councilmember, Brianne Nadeau, of Ward 1, posted connected X that "DC is nether siege" from nan national government, pinch "armed subject operating our streets & masked agents scooping up neighbors & taking them away."

"Our residents are afraid, hesitant to spell retired & to work, angry that our constricted autonomy is being eroded. There is thing invited astir this," she said.

Asked Thursday astir nan Council's criticism, Bowser said she'd spoken for a agelong clip connected Wednesday "and I’m starting to deliberation immoderate of what I said was mislaid successful my remarks."

"Our North Star is protecting location norm and nan district’s autonomy successful each things, particularly during this past 8 months, wherever it has been clear that our autonomy has benignant of been successful nan crosshairs. That’s our North Star since nan opening of this national surge of officers," she said.

"We didn’t inquire for immoderate national officers. We’re driving crime down, but while they’re here, really tin we astir strategically usage them to accelerate nan activity that MPD has done. So that's our point," she added, referring to nan D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.

In her remarks Wednesday, Bowser noted that since nan national takeover, location has been an 87% driblet successful carjackings compared to nan aforesaid play past year. The data cited also showed a 45% autumn successful convulsive crime and a 12% simplification successful property-related offenses, for an mean alteration of 15% successful crime wide successful nan territory from nan aforesaid play past year.

“We cognize that erstwhile carjackings spell down, erstwhile usage of guns goes down, erstwhile homicide aliases robbery spell down, neighborhoods consciousness safer and are safer, truthful this surge has been important to us,” she said.

Bowser besides expressed immoderate of nan aforesaid concerns arsenic nan councilmembers. "We cognize having masked ICE agents successful nan organization has not worked, and National Guards from different states has not been an businesslike usage of those resources,” she said.

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said successful a connection Wednesday that “crime is not a partisan issue.”

“Americans expect elected officials to prioritize their information complete politics. President Trump’s bold action and business pinch section rule enforcement has quickly minimized convulsive crime and removed complete a 1000 criminals from nan streets of our nation’s capital,” she said. “Other Democrat leaders who are criticizing President Trump for cleaning up D.C. should return notes connected nan tremendous occurrence that Washington, D.C., has already knowledgeable nether President Trump’s leadership.”