{"id":45621,"date":"2025-12-20T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=45621"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:30:28","slug":"abc-anchor-admits-truth-as-trumps-dc-crackdown-yields-big-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=45621","title":{"rendered":"ABC Anchor Admits Truth As Trump\u2019s DC Crackdown Yields Big Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"anchorslot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s decision to federalize Washington, D.C., turned a long-simmering anxiety into open confrontation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.info_responsive_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On paper, the results look impressive: robberies and<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1761912\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"anchorslot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>car break-ins down by more than 40 percent, overall violent crime dropping double digits in a single week.<\/p>\n<p>For some residents, that means finally walking home at night without scanning every shadow,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.info_responsive_2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>after years of headlines and personal horror stories that never matched the \u201ccrime is down\u201d talking points.<\/p>\n<p>But the cost of those gains is already tearing the city apart. Federal agents are now<\/p>\n<p>embedded with local police, rolling through neighborhoods in unmarked cars,<\/p>\n<p>turning routine stops into immigration dragnets. ICE arrests have spiked to more than ten times their usual rate,<\/p>\n<p>transforming a crime crackdown into a sweeping test of power and identity.<\/p>\n<p>In living rooms, newsrooms, and city blocks, Washington is being forced to decide what \u201csafety\u201d really means\u2014and who has to pay for it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1761906\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s decision to federalize Washington, D.C., turned a long-simmering anxiety into open confrontation. On paper, the results look impressive: robberies and car break-ins down by more than 40 percent, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45623,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45621\/revisions\/45623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}