Experts and officials said D.C.’s juvenile crime crisis required sweeping institutional reforms to close legal gaps and impose tougher penalties on offenders.

And in the late 1980s and 1990s, D.C. claimed the title of “murder capital” of the U.S. as homicide rates hit record rates ...

Donald Trump has declared a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., seizing control of the city’s police and deploying 800 ...

Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer discusses MSNBC host Joe Scarborough's backing of US President Donald Trump’s ...

“Over the course of the next month, the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue and arrest every violent criminal in the district who breaks the law, undermines public safety, and endangers ...

CNN, POOL, TRUTHSOCIAL, WUSA, THE WHITE HOUSE, CNN VIA WEBEX, DC METROPOLITAN POLICE By Hanna Park, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The DC National ...

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy didn’t hold back Tuesday on Fox News as he blasted progressive critics of President ...

The White House says people living on the street in Washington, D.C., can avoid jail by going to a shelter. Homeless ...

The National Guard were deployed on the streets of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night as part of President Donald Trump’s promise to make the capital the safest city in the world. The operation came ...

The Democratic mayor reversed her tone towards Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard to combat crime in her city.

This president campaigned on ‘law and order,’ but he is the president of chaos and corruption,” said NAACP President Derrick ...

Trump, who has described the capital as unsafe and blighted by crime, was accused by Bowser of misrepresenting Washington’s character. His reaction to visible homelessness, she said, “triggers ...