Trump Says Upcoming Press Conference ‘Will, Essentially, Stop Violent Crime’ In D.C.

President Donald Trump declared Saturday morning on his Reality Social platform that Washington, D.C., will quickly be quite a bit safer — and wrote in an oddly worded publish {that a} White Home press convention “will, primarily, cease violent crime” within the nation’s capital.

“On Monday a Press Convention will probably be held on the White Home which can, primarily, cease violent crime in Washington, D.C.,” the president announced. “It has turn into one of the harmful cities wherever within the World. It is going to quickly be the most secure!!!”

He ended the publish with, “Thanks to your consideration to this matter. President DJT.”

Trump has alluded to rampant crime in each cities as his reasoning for the concept, however the New York Metropolis Police Division announced in June that it skilled, from January by means of Could, the bottom variety of shootings and murders within the metropolis’s recorded historical past.

D.C. seems to have skilled the same drop. The district’s Metropolitan Police Division confirmed Friday that in a year-to-date comparability to the identical interval final 12 months, violent crime had dropped by 26%.

“If D.C. doesn’t get its act collectively, and rapidly, we may have no alternative however to take Federal management of the Metropolis, and run this Metropolis the way it needs to be run, and put criminals on discover that they’re not going to get away with it anymore,” Trump wrote Tuesday on his platform.

Federal legislation enforcement in D.C. was bolstered Friday, the White Home confirmed.

Trump seems to have sidelined various options to the issue, nevertheless. He slashed federal funding final month for gun violence prevention applications throughout the U.S., reducing $158 million in grants directed to teams particularly in cities like D.C. and New York.