President Donald Trump announced Monday he’s taking decisive action to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., drawing attention to violent crime rates not only in the nation’s capital, but in major cities across the U.S.  

“We have other cities that are very bad—New York has a problem, and then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland,” Trump said at a White House press conference Monday morning to announce that the federal government is taking control of the D.C. police in an effort to crack down on crime.  

“We’re not going to lose our cities over this,” Trump said, referring to crime.  

Efforts to clean up cities in the U.S. will “go further” than the nation’s capital, but “we’re starting very strongly with D.C.,”........

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