The District of Columbia has gone 12 days without a single murder following President Trump’s federal takeover of DC police, a feat not seen since January, 2020, according to Metropolitan Police Department data analyzed by The Post.
The current streak of no killings is uncommon in a city that has already seen over 100 homicides in 2025, and averages nearly twice that in a typical year. The last recorded murder in the US capital was Aug. 13, two days after Trump announced the department would be federalized and the National Guard would be deployed on city streets.
“This town averaged 1 murder every other day for the last 20-30 years, which means in two short weeks the president and his team have saved six or seven lives, people who would have been killed on the streets of DC,” Vice President JD Vance said during an Oval Office press conference Monday.
“[Those people] are now living, breathing, spending time with their families because the president had the willpower to say no more, we’re not going to give streets of DC over to vagrants and robbers and murderers.”
Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole, who was tapped by Trump to be the temporary leader of the MPD during the federal takeover, said there’s been an instant morale boost at the department since the president gave the order.
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“The men and women of the Metropolitan Police Department are back. They enjoy doing their job again. They feel the ability to go out and be law enforcement officers,” he said from the Oval Office.
“They feel they’re connected to their communities again, they’re making a difference. Thanks to you, Mr. President, and our federal task force, you are making DC safe once again.”
