Since its inception in August 2025, President Donald Trump’s Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force has made over 10,000 arrests and recovered over 1,000 illicit firearms from the nation’s capital, according to information obtained by Fox News Digital.
“President Trump’s federal surge in Washington, D.C. has saved lives and helped restore our Nation’s beautiful capital city for all Americans to enjoy,” the Department of Justice said in a statement. “Thanks to the brave work of Gady Serralta’s Marshals, our other DOJ components, and our great federal partners, we have proven that tolerating crime is a policy choice — we choose public safety.”
The task force has carried out 10,018 arrests and recovered 1,036 illegal firearms.
Since August 2025, members of the Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guard, and federal agencies like the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Park Police, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have taken to the streets of D.C. to conduct sweeps and root out crime as part of Trump’s crackdown on rampant crime.
In March 2025, Trump issued an executive order titled “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful,” which created a task force. Gadyaces S. Serralta, the director of the U.S. Marshals Service, is in charge of the task force’s law enforcement collaboration, which unites 3,100 employees from 28 agencies to conduct the city’s crime crackdown.
Trump adopted a tough stance in response to a string of high-profile murders and attacks that occurred in the city earlier in 2025. The District was already experiencing extremely high crime rates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a troubling surge of young adults committing violent crimes like armed carjackings.
As the administration supports Trump’s crackdown on law and order, crime has now decreased.
According to data given to Fox News Digital, overall violent crime has decreased by 31%, robberies by 47%, sexual abuse by 64%, and murders by 68% since the same period in 2025.
During the crackdown, the task force notably found or recovered 19 missing children.
The “era of unchecked violence is over,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement to Fox News.
“President Trump’s decisive no-nonsense strategy to restore law and order, the federal surge of law enforcement resources, combined with aggressive prosecution of violent offenders, is delivering real, measurable results. I came here to fight street crime in the nation’s capital, and since then, homicides have fallen to historic lows, and violent crime has dropped dramatically. Those who prey on our communities are being arrested, prosecuted, and convicted,” Pirro said.
The task force’s arrests include 28 for homicide, 1,693 for narcotics, 874 for weapons offenses, and 34 for sex offenses, as well as the arrests of 52 known gang members.
Violent crime dropped sharply across the biggest cities in the United States in 2025, yet another validation of President Donald Trump’s commitment to restoring law and order across the country.
Trump took office on a pledge to restore public safety after years of chaos, rising crime, and former President Joe Biden’s soft-on-crime policies that threw the country’s largest cities into anarchy and disorder.
Trump has done so in a way that has never been seen before.
Every major violent crime category saw sharp drops in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to the new data: robberies decreased by 20%, aggravated assaults decreased by almost 10%, and overall murders decreased by 19%.
The White House touted this “tremendous success” in a post online.
“These gains build on earlier reports showing America’s cities are now safer than they’ve been in over a century under President Trump’s leadership. The murder rate in the nation’s biggest cities has fallen to its lowest level in at least 125 years — marking the largest single-year drop in recorded history. Beyond murders, the nation also saw dramatic reductions in rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, shooting deaths (fewest since 2015), on-duty law enforcement officer deaths (80-year low), traffic fatalities, and overdose deaths,” the post noted.
It added, “This is the direct result of President Trump’s aggressive, no-nonsense approach to public safety. By surging federal resources to Democrat-run cities that had devolved into war zones, removing savage criminal illegals from our streets, supporting police and prosecutors, and rejecting the Radical Left’s weakness, President Trump’s decisive actions have turned the tide, saved countless lives, and restored peace to communities long abandoned by Democrat politicians who prioritized criminals over citizens.”
According to the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) report, there were decreases in 2025 compared to 2024 in all of the major violent crime categories. It supports other research on the decreases from the previous year and includes data from 67 of the largest police departments in the country.
–Cities report that homicides overall fell 19%.
–Robberies dropped about 20%.
–Aggravated assaults were down nearly 10%.
Multiple Southern and Sun Belt cities were among the biggest homicide decliners, an Axios analysis of the MCCA data found.
–Florida cities Orlando and Tampa headlined the list with more than a 50% decline in homicides, according to the Axios review.
–Western cities such as Denver, Seattle, Honolulu, and Albuquerque, N.M., also posted large homicide drops.
–These cities were among the hardest hit during the pandemic-era crime surge, and are now seeing some of the fastest reversals.
Chicago and Baltimore both experienced around a 30% drop in homicides last year, an Axios review of the MCCA data found.
–Memphis and Portland both saw about a 25% decline.
–Previous reports had shown all the cities in recent years seeing declines in violent crime.
“After record high crime across the country under Biden’s defund the police era, the murder rate has plunged to a 125-year low as crime falls across the board, according to new data,” the White House said.
