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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

The murder capital of the US and a former mayor on crack: DC’s history of crime problems

President Donald Trump described Washington D.C. as a city riddled with “crime, bloodshed, bedlam, squalor and worse,” setting the scene to place the nation’s capital under federal control.

Trump is throwing the full weight of his administration behind the deployment of around 800 National Guard troops to crack down on “out of control” crime.

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