P resident Donald Trump has painted Washington, D.C. as a city spiraling into lawlessness, but a Newsweek analysis of multiple data sources tell a more nuanced story. Newsweek contacted the White House by email to comment on this story.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city’s police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city.

Trump says homeless people must go "far" from the nation's capital, as part of his anti-crime plan, but the mayor pushes back.

The White House on Monday said Washington, D.C. has the highest murder rate in 2024, as it cited the murder rates in Delhi, Islamabad, Paris, London and other cities around the world.