Under President Donald Trump’s federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., as the nation’s capital recorded its 12th straight day without a homicide, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Monday.
In addition, Pirro revealed that the operation has just seen arrests in D.C. blow past 1,000.
Pirro said that on Sunday alone, authorities made 86 arrests and seized 10 illegal guns.
The news brings the totals to 1,007 arrests and 111 firearms taken off the streets since Trump’s “Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful” initiative launched earlier this month.
“What does that mean?” Pirro said on “Fox & Friends.”
“They can’t be used to shoot people, to kill people.
“And on top of all of that, we’ve got a government now where the people in D.C. are feeling safer.
“They know that there is a president who’s looking to protect them.”
Pirro credited Trump’s decision to deploy federal agencies and seize temporary control of the Metropolitan Police Department with reshaping public safety in the nation’s capital.
“D.C. was one of the most violent cities in the world, but for President Trump coming in and bringing in our federal partners … we’ve got a unified force of people and law enforcement who were going into