'The Crime Numbers Are Way Down': Trump Touts Crime Crackdown In Remarks To D.C. Police Officers

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In remarks to police officers in Washington, D.C., President Trump touted a drop in crime.

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00:00But the crime numbers are way down.

00:02I'm looking at, you saw some of the stats.

00:04They just read them out to me inside.

00:06They're numbers that we haven't seen here ever, actually ever.

00:11And I think it's probably right now.

00:14To me, I feel very safe now, and I'm hearing people are very safe.

00:17But I know within two weeks, it's going to be, Pam,

00:20it's going to be at a level that's even far superior.

00:24And we're going to then go on to other places.

00:26But we're going to stay here for a while.

00:28We want to make this absolutely perfect.

00:30It's our capital.

00:31And I guess it used to be many years ago, say,

00:36but it's certainly not had a very good run.

00:39And you've got to be strong.

00:40You've got to be tough.

00:41You've got to do your job.

00:42Whatever it takes to do your job, you've got to do your job.

00:45But we've had a great, great period of time.

00:49But I've never received so many phone calls thanking me

00:52for what we've done in Washington, D.C.,

00:55from people that haven't gone to a restaurant literally in four years.

00:59And they said, you know, what you've done is it's unprecedented

01:03because what they said it was just unsafe.

01:08We couldn't do it.

01:09We'd go out, and you'd see the stories.

01:12You'd read the stories.

01:13You'd see all of the things that are happening.

01:14And they said, we just couldn't stand it, sir.

01:19And now I take my wife and my kids to dinner.

01:21One of them said he's gone out four nights in a row,

01:24and he hadn't gone out for four years.

01:27So it's a great tribute to you.

01:30And when I look at you people, I understand why.

01:33Because there's no games, right?

01:35We're not playing games.

01:36We're going to make it safe.

01:37Well, I just want to thank everybody very much for being here.

01:41I wanted to do this.

01:42We've had some incredible results.

01:46The results have come out, and it's like a different place.

01:49It's like a different city.

01:52It's the capital.

01:52It's going to be the best in the world.

01:54We're going to do what you're doing with law enforcement.

01:57And very importantly also, we're going to physically do it.

01:59We're going back to Congress for some money,

02:02and we're going to redo a lot of the pavement,

02:05a lot of the medians, a lot of the graffitis

02:08all coming off real fast.

02:10It's going to come down real fast.

02:12We're working with Clark Construction there,

02:14one of the big ones.

02:15They're the biggest here by far, actually.

02:18And we're going to be not so much building.

02:20It's cleaning and fixing and redoing

02:23and putting brand-new surfaces down on your roads and streets.

02:27And when people come in from the airport

02:29all the way to the Capitol or the White House

02:31or anyplace else, they're going to say,

02:32boy, this place is spotless.

02:34So we're doing that.

02:35Most importantly, though,

02:36we're going to have a crowd of people

02:38that are going to be happy.

02:40You know, I've received more phone calls

02:43from people in the last four days

02:44than I ever have.

02:46I've been here now four years plus.

02:49And by the way, I think we had about the best seven months,

02:52they're saying that any president's had.

02:54We've done a lot of work.

02:55We've done a lot of good work.

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