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Expert flips script on Dems pushing ‘cherry-picked’ crime stats to resist Trump’s DC crackdown
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Democrats across the country have been pushing back on President Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown, citing statistics purportedly showing that crime in the nation’s capital is down or even at historic lows, but an expert who spoke to Fox News Digital is pushing back on that narrative.
«These Democrats are citing statistics from the FBI, from its uniform crime report. And the problem with that is that they’re portraying it as if it’s a record of violent crime,» Jim Agresti, president of the nonprofit research institute Just Facts, told Fox News Digital shortly after Trump announced he was sending federal resources to the nation’s capital to confront crime in the city.
«But really what it is is a record of crimes that are reported to the police and then those of those crimes that get reported to the FBI. It’s not a full record of all violent crimes, and this is a problem. And the FBI is very explicit about this when they present the data in their formal report every year, where they say, ‘Do not directly compare the data from year to year because there are differences in how frequently people report crimes and how frequently the FBI gets that data from the local police agencies.’»
While many prominent Democrats, including Mayor Muriel Bowser, have insisted violent crime is at a 30-year low in the city, Agresti told Fox News Digital the «best way to understand the state of violent crime» in any jurisdiction is to look at the number of murders because it is a violent crime that is difficult to «sweep under the rug» because it «produces a dead body.»
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Fox News Digital spoke to Just Facts President Jim Agresti about the crime situation in Washington, D.C. (Getty)
«When we look at the murder data for DC, we see that it is not a situation that is lower now than it’s been in the last 30 years. Quite the opposite,» Agresti explained. «It is currently 83% higher than it was at its low point a dozen years ago. So, there is a serious problem with serious crime, violent crime in D.C., and the city now, the nation’s capital, has a murder rate that is five times the U.S. average.»
The chances of a person facing a violent crime in Washington, D.C., have dropped in recent years, but the possibility of dying during such a crime has skyrocketed, data shows, Fox News Digital reported on Wednesday.
Lethality in D.C. jumped by a whopping 341% when compared to 2012 data, the study found, reporting that there were 13 homicides per 1,000 serious violent crimes in 2012 and 57 homicides per 1,000 serious violent crimes in 2024.
Agresti explained that while many people operate with the belief that crime spiked across the country during and because of COVID, the issue actually began getting worse specifically when the Black Lives Matter rioting erupted.
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Members of the National Guard monitor entries at the staging area of local and federal law enforcement agencies inside the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility Aug. 12, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Craig Hudson For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
«That makes a lot of sense,» Agresti said. «Police were vilified. They pulled back out of fear of being hurt. People were talking about defunding the police, and there was overall mayhem in this country. So, that rise, by the way, that people blame on COVID actually didn’t start with COVID, and it didn’t appear in other countries. It happened here where we had these BLM riots.»
Agresti told Fox News Digital there is a «clear connection» between crime in the United States and the «Defund the Police» movement and that most people don’t grasp the «full extent» of the crime problem in this country.
«We had roughly 17,000 murders last year,» Agresti explained. «Imagine if all of them made national news. At the current rate of murders in this county, roughly one in every 230 people in the United States will have their lives cut short by being murdered. That statistic is so unbelievable.»
In addition to the «staggering» facts about murder, Agresti said data compiled by Just Facts shows one in 10 women in the United States are raped in the course of their lives.
«Think about the horror of that, and beyond all this pain, suffering, death, there’s also a financial cost to crime,» Agresti said. «It’s been quantified in a 2021 academic paper, and, bottom line, crime in all of its forms, pain, death, suffering, financial loss, activities we take to prevent crime, they amount to a cost on our US economy of roughly $40,000 per U.S. household.»
Questions have also been raised about local crime stats from D.C. showing crime is down so far this year, with many pointing to news reports that a D.C. police commander was recently suspended for allegedly altering crime data.
Agresti said anyone can «cherry-pick» crime statistics to promote a specific agenda but that it is important to also realize that many crimes also go unreported due to various factors, including animosity toward police or the belief that calling the police won’t yield results.
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«The vast majority of crime goes unreported, and another phenomenon that’s really, really disturbing is the amount of crimes that are solved,» Agresti said. «It used to be in this country, in 1960, that 92% of all murders are solved. In 2023, that figure was down to 58%, meaning that 40-plus percent of people who committed murders got away with it, and they’re out there to commit them again.»
As of Thursday, 800 Trump-authorized National Guard troops were in Washington, D.C., supporting other federal law enforcement agencies with «monument security, community safety patrols, protecting federal facilities and officers, traffic control posts and area beautification,» according to the State Department.
President Donald Trump gestures in the State Dining Room of the White House Aug. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump’s move to crack down on crime in the capital, which the White House says is happening at levels that dwarf capitals in other far more impoverished countries across the world, has sparked protests led by liberal activists and outrage from some elected Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
«When politicians are saying, ‘We don’t have to worry about this, it’s the lowest crime rate in 30 years,’ they are abdicating their responsibility,» Agresti told Fox News Digital.
«The Declaration of Independence said that governments are instituted to protect the rights of people, including their life, their liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What we have right now is many politicians and governments who are doing an extremely poor job of that, and the pain and suffering is unbelievable. It’s just so broad and so horrible.»
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report
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The Trump administration’s migrant detention center in the Everglades has become the subject of two lawsuits, which are threatening to derail the facility’s operations as the government employs novel tactics to crack down on immigration enforcement.
The new facility, nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz, is facing allegations that its hundreds of detainees are unable to properly communicate with lawyers, did not have access to an immigration court until recently and are living in inhumane conditions.
A second lawsuit alleges that the makeshift detention center, made up of tents and trailers and surrounded by wetlands and wildlife, is also being built unlawfully within a sensitive habitat for endangered species.
TRUMP SAYS ONLY WAY OUT OF ‘ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ’ IS DEPORTATION
President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem walk through a medical facility section as they tour a migrant detention center, dubbed «Alligator Alcatraz,» located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the first complaint on behalf of several detained migrants, saw a small setback Monday night when Judge Rodolfo Ruiz said its claims should have been brought in the Middle District of Florida rather than in the Southern District.
Ruiz, a Trump appointee, said the case must be transferred to that district, finding that the alleged violations occurred at the facility, which is located in Collier County, about 50 miles from Miami.
The ACLU, along with other groups, argued in their lawsuit that some detainees were not given the ability to communicate confidentially with an attorney and that up until recently, the Trump administration had not designated any immigration court as having jurisdiction over the detained migrants, of which there were about 700.
SELF-DEPORT OR END UP IN ‘ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ,’ NOEM WARNS MIGRANTS DURING TRUMP VISIT
The entrance to the state-managed immigration detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades on Aug. 03, 2025 in Ochopee, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Image)
«This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,» the plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote.
Although not part of their legal claims, the attorneys said their clients were being held in «harsh and inhumane conditions» that included one meal per day, no access to daily showers, excessive force by guards and a lack of medical care. They are «kept around the clock in a cage inside a tent,» the attorneys said.
The Department of Homeland Security, which is working in coordination with the state of Florida to build Alligator Alcatraz, disputed claims by detainees of poor conditions.
Protesters gather to demand the closure of the immigrant detention center known as «Alligator Alcatraz» at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 22, 2025. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
«Here are the facts: Alligator Alcatraz does meet federal detention standards,» DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said. «All detainee facilities are clean. Any allegations of inhumane conditions are FALSE. When will the media stop peddling hoaxes about illegal alien detention centers and start focusing on American victims of illegal alien crime?»
Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has said the facility is designed to be temporary and a means of alleviating the burden on other detention centers. DeSantis has said he hopes Alligator Alcatraz, which was constructed on an airport, will be a «force multiplier» for Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.
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In a separate case, Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, is considering whether Alligator Alcatraz should be halted for violating the National Environmental Policy Act.
Williams placed a 14-day hold on all construction of the facility, but that order is set to expire Aug. 21. The judge vowed to issue another order by that date, saying the temporary harm to the government caused by pausing construction was not as great as the harm that would be caused if she found a lack of compliance with environmental laws and regulations.
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Israel eliminates Gaza terrorist who took part in October attack on kibbutz, took Yarden Bibas hostage
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Israel took out a terrorist during an airstrike earlier this month who was involved in the abduction of an Israeli man on Oct. 7, 2023, authorities said Tuesday.
The strike, which occurred in Gaza on Aug. 10, killed Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced.
«A small part of my closure happened today. Thank you to the IDF, the Shin Bet, and everyone who took part in the elimination of one of the terrorists who kidnapped me on October 7,» Yarden Bibas said in a statement provided by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. «Thanks to you, he will not be able to harm anyone else.
EX-ISRAELI OFFICIAL OFFERS BOLD 2-PRONGED STRATEGY AS ‘THE ONLY WAY’ TO FREE HOSTAGES FROM HAMAS
Israel said Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, a terrorist believed to have been involved in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israelis, was killed in airstrikes. (Israel Defense Forces)
«Please take care of yourselves, heroes. I am waiting for full closure with the return of my friends David and Ariel, and the remaining 48 hostages,» he added.
Najjar was involved in the invasion of the Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the hardest hit during the deadly Oct. 7 attacks, where Bibas was kidnapped. Bibas’ family was kidnapped separately and was eventually murdered while in captivity.
He spent 480 days as a hostage before he was released in January. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were killed before their bodies were returned to Israel.
While in captivity, Bibas was forced to make a hostage film in which he was seen breaking down as Hamas claimed his wife and children had been killed.
ISRAEL RECOVERS REMAINS OF THREE MORE BODIES HELD BY HAMAS: ‘NO VICTORY UNTIL LAST HOSTAGE RETURNS’
Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar is seen pictured alongside hostages. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Hamas often uses hostage videos as part of what the IDF calls «psychological terror.»
Upon his release, Bibas’ family said that «a quarter of our heart has returned to us after 15 long months. … Yarden has returned home, but the home remains incomplete.»
In the aftermath of Hamas’ attack, the Bibas family became a symbol of the terror group’s cruelty. Video footage of Shiri Bibas holding her two red-headed children in her arms went viral across the globe.
Pictures of the Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz, 84, who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas and then killed, are displayed next to candles in the dining room in Kibbutz Nir Oz, after their bodies were handed over to Israel under the terms of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, on the day of Lifshitz’s funeral, in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel Feb. 25, 2025. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
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In April, Israel said it had killed Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Awad, a senior commander in the Palestinian Mujahideen terrorist organization and who helped lead «several» attacks on the Nir Oz kibbutz.
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Oasis sigue adelante con su gira Live ‘25, que ya suma 16 presentaciones consecutivas. Las ciudades británicas de Cardiff, Mánchester, Londres, Edimburgo y Dublin recibieron hasta ahora los conciertos de los hermanos Gallagher, quienes mantienen la solidez de su propuesta en cada escenario. En uno de los recitales recientes, en Dublín, Irlanda, un usuario de la red social X compartió un video en el que una intérprete de lengua de señas sorprendió al público por la energía y la fidelidad con la que transmitía la emoción de las canciones.
Según precisó Ken Sweeney, autor de la publicación, se trataba en realidad de tres mujeres que cumplieron ese rol durante el espectáculo. El hombre destacó su desempeño: “Me quito el sombrero para las tres intérpretes”, afirmó. Otros asistentes también reconocieron su trabajo y subrayaron que “merecen un gran reconocimiento por lo que hacen”. Incluso mencionaron que, al caer la noche, emplearon barras luminosas para que el público pudiera seguir sus movimientos.
De acuerdo con lo publicado por Rolling Stone, las intérpretes lograron captar la atención por su capacidad de trasladar la emoción de cada tema, animando la escena con bailes enérgicos y replicando gestos icónicos, como el característico movimiento de cabeza de Liam Gallagher en Morning Glory. Aunque la expectativa estaba centrada en el regreso de la banda a Irlanda, después de diecisiete años desde su última visita en 2008, la inclusión de estas intérpretes en el recital de Croke Park se convirtió en uno de los momentos más comentados.
Durante el show en Dublín, Liam dedicó “Be Here Now” a su madre Peggy, presente entre el público. Según destacó Rolling Stone, ella atravesó junto a sus hijos los años difíciles tras la disolución del grupo y también acompañó el reencuentro de los hermanos en el marco de esta gira. Además, tanto Liam como Noel ofrecieron un homenaje conjunto: interpretaron “Roll With It” en honor a sus padres, ambos de origen irlandés, como tributo al pueblo natal de su madre.
El vínculo familiar volvió a aparecer en los gestos del menor de los Gallagher. Antes de comenzar “Some Might Say”, bromeó con los asistentes al exclamar: “¡Creo que soy virgen en Croke Park! No tocamos aquí antes, ¿verdad?”. Luego agregó, entre risas, sobre su propio estado de ánimo: “Lo único que sé es que esta es la vez que más sobrio estuve en Irlanda desde que tenía cuatro o cinco años, algo así”.
El tour Live ‘25 continuará en agosto en Norteamérica, con presentaciones en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México. Posteriormente, el grupo viajará a Sudamérica. En noviembre, Oasis se reencontrará con su público argentino en el estadio de River Plate. Será la quinta visita de la banda al país, en lo que se anticipa como un espectáculo multitudinario.
Con este regreso, los Gallagher refuerzan su vigencia en los escenarios internacionales, combinando la expectativa por su reencuentro con gestos que enriquecen la experiencia de los espectadores. El trabajo de las intérpretes de lengua de señas en Croke Park no solo amplió la accesibilidad de los conciertos, sino que también aportó un matiz inédito a la celebración de la música de Oasis.
(Kevin Cummins cortesía Sony Music)
El fenómeno que acompaña a Oasis en esta gira confirma el interés que despierta la reunión de los hermanos Gallagher, más allá de las tensiones históricas que marcaron su trayectoria.
La respuesta del público en cada ciudad, junto con iniciativas como la inclusión de intérpretes de lengua de señas, muestra cómo la música de la banda logra renovarse sin perder su esencia. De cara a los próximos meses, la expectativa por sus presentaciones en América apunta a consolidar el impacto global de Live ‘25 como uno de los regresos más significativos de la escena rockera internacional.
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