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Jeanine Pirro, the United States’ lawyer of the District of Columbia, said Federal control And using the National Guard to the capital of the nation was a first step to take the crime.
“We are now in the process of drawing attention to the law, not only in DC, but in the whole country that we will not tolerate a crime, that is out of control In the capital of the nation, “she said on Monday about” Hannity “.
“This is the Shining City on the hill that our ancestors talked about. This is the place where Ronald Reagan spoke. And in the end it is an incredibly violent area.”
Pirro, a former Fox News co-moderator, competed in the Briefing Room of the White House when the commander-in-chief announced the changes and an increase in federal law enforcement authorities.
The US lawyer Jeanine Pirro from right, the FBI director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, when President Donald Trump speaks in Washington on Monday, August 11, 2025, in Washington in the press room of the James Brady press house in the press room of the White House. ((AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein))
Trump continued His social report of the truth That he wants to make the federal district one of the safest cities in the world and demanded young people aged 14 to be charged as adults.
The comments came after ex-Doge employee Edward Coristine was supposedly attacked with the nickname “Big Ballen” during an attempted carjacking.
Have two 15-year-olds has been arrested since then And the indictment for unarmed carjacking in connection with the Coristine attack according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
A US Capitol police officer joins his car on the sidewalk near the US Capitol in Washington, DC on August 8, 2025. ((Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)))
Pirro told Fox News, moderator Sean Hannity that DC’s’s Juveniles Justice System is more focused on rehabilitation than on accountability.
“We have an area in which criminals are encouraged for various reasons,” said the supreme public prosecutor.
“They know these young gangs – or, as they are called here, crews – they know that if they are 14, 15, 16 or 17, they are under the age of criminal law, unless they commit the crime of murder, rapists, armed robbery or burglary in the first degree. And that means if they shoot someone and do not even die as a public prosecutor.”
She added: “Unless and until we get them into our hands and until and until we have the ability to punish them, they are encouraged and they laugh at us.”
The FBI director Kash Patel with FBI agent in Washington, DC on August 11th in front of the park police, the command center for the new procedure of the Trump government against crimes in the capital of the country. (Kind permission: FBI, only provided to FOX News Digital)
MPD reported A decrease in total crime by 7% and a reduction in violent crimes in Washington, DC, from Monday compared to the same period in 2024.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser quoted a decline In the case of crime incidents since Covid 19 pandemic after an increase in 2023, the city has a 30-year low in violent crimes.
She described the use of troops of the National Guard “worrying and unprecedented”, but promised to work with federal officials to ensure that the residents are safe.
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