President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press conference Monday that the violent crime situation in Washington, DC, “is getting worse,

Critics have expressed skepticism at data coming from the Metropolitan Police Department of the U.S. capital. Snopes looked at FBI data.

Media outlets are fact-checking President Donald Trump’s concerns about violence in Washington, D.C., by pointing to misleading crime statistics. Trump

With President Donald Trump enforcing a federal takeover of D.C., here’s an in-depth look at the city’s crime rates through the years.

In southeast Washington, DC, children stood in line Friday to receive new backpacks filled with school supplies, while community organizers passed out free hot dogs and hamburgers to teenagers to celebrate the last few days of summer before.

Not good enough? D.C. officials trying to push back against Trump’s federal control of city's law enforcement don't address the big picture.