Trump says he's going to patrol D.C. with police and National Guard

Vance visits National Guard troops successful D.C.

Vance visits National Guard troops successful D.C. amid statement implicit transgression statistics 02:24

Washington — President Trump said he's going retired successful Washington, D.C., Thursday nighttime to patrol the metropolis alongside instrumentality enforcement and the National Guard. 

Mr. Trump made the announcement arsenic the Metropolitan Police Department tells CBS News nary homicides person been reported successful the territory successful implicit a week, aft the Trump medication began an anti-crime inaugural that's swamped the metropolis with national instrumentality enforcement and National Guard members. 

"I'm going to beryllium going retired tonight, I'm going to support it a secret," the president joked to vigor big Todd Starnes. "...I'm going to beryllium retired contiguous I deliberation with the police, and with the military, of course. So we're gonna bash a job. The National Guard is great. They've done a fantastic job." 

The president's sojourn besides comes a time aft Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House lawman main of unit Stephen Miller visited National Guard members posted astatine Union Station. 

It's not wide what the president's outing volition look like, and whether he'll stay successful his motorcade oregon sojourn a peculiar location. 

Since the Trump medication began its anti-crime initiative, a full of 630 arrests person been made, and 86 amerciable guns person been seized, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. 

Unlike different presidents, Mr. Trump has made fewer ventures into the district, different than to present speeches or, during his archetypal term, to sojourn his erstwhile edifice down Pennsylvania Avenue. Past presidents person occasionally dined astatine D.C. restaurants. 

Mr. Trump has insisted that radical helium knows consciousness safer successful the metropolis than they person before. 

"People that haven't gone retired to meal successful Washington, D.C. successful 2 years are going retired to dinner," Mr. Trump claimed earlier this week. 

According to section constabulary data, convulsive transgression successful D.C. has been declining for the past twelvemonth and a fractional aft spiking successful 2023. As of Aug. 11, robberies this twelvemonth are down 28% and wide convulsive transgression is down 26%. Last year, convulsive transgression successful the superior metropolis deed its lowest level successful much than 30 years, the Justice Department said.  

Mr. Trump, however, has called D.C. transgression statistic "phony numbers," and said his medication would "look into that."

Jacob Rosen contributed to this report.