Crime
DC violence has grown far more deadly, despite Dems claiming 30-year low
Trump federalized the Metropolitan Police Department under section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act
Emma Colton By Emma Colton Fox News
Published August 13, 2025 4:59pm EDT
DC Police Union agrees with Trump: 'Crime is out of control'
D.C. Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton explains how data is manipulated to make it appear that crime in the capital city is going down on 'Varney & Co.'
The chances of a person facing a violent crime in Washington, D.C., have dropped in recent years, but the possibility of dying during such a crime has skyrocketed, data shows.
"You have less chance of being victimized, but if you are victimized, you have more of a chance of dying," John Jay adjunct lecturer Jillian Snider, a retired New York Police Department officer, told Fox News Digital Tuesday of violent crime trends in the nation's capital.
Snider was referring to a report published by the Council on Criminal Justice in July, which studied violent crime data of 17 large U.S. cities between 2018 and 2024, specifically diving into the lethality of violent crimes in those cities. It found Washington, D.C., had the highest lethality level out of the group – which included cities such as Baltimore and Chicago – at a 38% increase in lethality in 2024 compared with 2018.
Lethality in D.C. jumped by a whopping 341% when compared to 2012 data, the study found, reporting that there were 13 homicides per 1,000 serious violent crimes in 2012 to 57 homicides per 1,000 serious violent crimes in 2024.
The study defined lethality as "the number of homicides per aggravated assaults and robberies."
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DC violence has grown far more deadly, despite Dems claiming 30-year low
Trump federalized the Metropolitan Police Department under section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act
Emma Colton By Emma Colton Fox News
Published August 13, 2025 4:59pm EDT
DC Police Union agrees with Trump: 'Crime is out of control'
D.C. Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton explains how data is manipulated to make it appear that crime in the capital city is going down on 'Varney & Co.'
The chances of a person facing a violent crime in Washington, D.C., have dropped in recent years, but the possibility of dying during such a crime has skyrocketed, data shows.
"You have less chance of being victimized, but if you are victimized, you have more of a chance of dying," John Jay adjunct lecturer Jillian Snider, a retired New York Police Department officer, told Fox News Digital Tuesday of violent crime trends in the nation's capital.
Snider was referring to a report published by the Council on Criminal Justice in July, which studied violent crime data of 17 large U.S. cities between 2018 and 2024, specifically diving into the lethality of violent crimes in those cities. It found Washington, D.C., had the highest lethality level out of the group – which included cities such as Baltimore and Chicago – at a 38% increase in lethality in 2024 compared with 2018.
Lethality in D.C. jumped by a whopping 341% when compared to 2012 data, the study found, reporting that there were 13 homicides per 1,000 serious violent crimes in 2012 to 57 homicides per 1,000 serious violent crimes in 2024.
The study defined lethality as "the number of homicides per aggravated assaults and robberies."
DC violence has grown far more deadly, despite Dems claiming 30-year low
The chances of a person facing a violent crime in Washington, D.C., has dropped in recent years, but the possibility of dying during such a crime has skyrocketed, data shows.