Veteran journalist Geraldo Rivera defended President Donald Trump’s efforts to ramp up law enforcement in Washington, D.C., telling Newsmax on Thursday that people need to feel safe in the nation’s capital.
“You can’t have 200 murders in the nation’s capital in a year,” Rivera told “American Agenda.”
D.C. police crime figures show an average of 202 homicides a year since Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, was elected to a second term in 2018, including a record 274 in 2023. Last year, homicides dipped to 187, still higher than any total from 2006 to 2019. There have been 101 homicides so far this year, 12 fewer than at this time last year.
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