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Trump decries crime, but has slashed prevention efforts

Season 2025 Episode 225
PBS News Hour

About the Episode

President Trump moved to take over policing in Washington, D.C. to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime," but the data doesn’t back up many of his claims. Murder and violent crime dropped significantly across the U.S. last year, a trend that’s continued so far in 2025. The crackdown comes even as his administration cut funding for other kinds of crime prevention work. John Yang reports.

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