P resident Donald Trump has painted Washington, D.C. as a city spiraling into lawlessness, but a Newsweek analysis of multiple data sources tell a more nuanced story. Newsweek contacted the White House by email to comment on this story.

President Donald Trump has spent days escalating his rhetoric on crime in Washington, calling the U.S. capital "totally out of control" and ordering a federal law enforcement surge ahead of a Monday press conference to outline a sweeping crackdown.

Trump says homeless people must go "far" from the nation's capital, as part of his anti-crime plan, but the mayor pushes back.