Returning to Donald Trump’s press conference about crime in Washington DC, the US President also claimed "the number of carjackings has more than tripled" over the last five years. But despite the president’s assertion, carjackings - like many other police recorded crimes in DC - have fallen in the past year.

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,

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump deployed 800 National Guard troops to the streets of Washington, DC, a rare flex of his presidential authority over the military while a court mulls the legality of his prior order sending troops to Los Angeles.