DC Mayor Bowser Asked Point Blank: Is DC 'Seeing A Decrease In Crime' Two Weeks Into Takeover?

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During a press briefing on Thursday, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was asked if the city has seen a decrease in crime since federal agents arrived two weeks ago.

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00:00providers and we will we have chosen a provider for this site are more

00:04effective they're just more effective and so we're gonna we're gonna keep

00:09pushing on that yep we're two weeks into this federal surge are you guys

00:14tracking the crime and seeing a decrease in crime especially in areas like Ward

00:177 and Ward 8 that traditionally have higher crime rates we we've been

00:22experiencing a decrease in crime for the last two years we expect that having

00:29500 additional officers will yield more arrests and we we want guns off the

00:36street our police officers continue to do the work and we expect some incremental

00:42difference with more officers yeah

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