Even WaPo has to admit it.
The Washington Post reported this week that Washington D.C. went three weeks in 2026 without a homicide — and violent crimes are down overall, as well.
From The Washington Post:
As of Friday, 18-year-old Malik Delonte Moore was the only person killed in D.C. in January. It capped a remarkable period of calm for a city entering its third year recovering from a generational crime spike that in 2023 thrust the nation’s capital into the top tier of the country’s deadliest urban centers. D.C. hadn’t started a year with more than 10 days without a slaying in three decades. By this time last year, there had been nine homicides in the city. Carjackings have also plummeted, dropping fivefold compared with the first month of last year and tenfold compared to 2024.
“It’s a testament to the work of the members of the Metropolitan Police Department have been doing,” interim D.C. police chief Jeffery Carroll said in an interview. “Those are people’s families that don’t have to deal with a loved one who’s no longer here.” And to Moore’s family, he pledged police are “going to do everything we can to try to solve and bring to justice the person who killed Malik.”
Violent and property crimes in the District have largely fallen to or below pre-pandemic levels, police statistics for January show. Those include homicides, robberies, carjackings, burglaries and vehicular thefts. Assaults with dangerous weapons, which include nonfatal shootings, are the lone crime category up this month, although they are still lower than in the years immediately after covid struck in 2020. Crime spiked in cities across the country during pandemic-induced shutdowns that upended routines and jobs and shattered the social safety net.
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shared the headline saying, “This is not an accident.”
Mainstream media mobsters have been reluctant to give the Trump Admin any credit for drops in violent crimes nationwide, preferring to discuss other possible reasons for the declines.
This is not an accident. pic.twitter.com/nDdqgreZ7l
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) February 2, 2026
Under President Trump, law and order has returned to our nation's capital. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/cJyJSx2NOA
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 2, 2026
The early-2026 calm comes after a steep multi-year decline in homicides — from 274 in 2023 to 187 in 2024 and 127 in 2025, The Washington Post reported.
Carjackings, once a signature fear across the city, also fell sharply in January versus prior years, according to the same reporting and MPD’s own public updates.
Police statistics also show violent and property crimes largely falling to or below pre-pandemic levels in multiple categories — with assaults with a dangerous weapon as the main category running higher year-over-year in the early 2026 tally.
D.C. went three weeks in 2026 without a homicide as violent crime dropshttps://t.co/MVTb26cyEV
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 2, 2026
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