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Documented executive actions, interagency directives, or agency operations showing a coordinated, named "whole-of-government" initiative directed at specific cities, and evidence linking those actions to the claimed crime reductions.
The White House article does state that “Since taking office, President Trump has deployed a whole-of-government offensive in Democrat-run cities, driving down crime.” Independent data show large declines in homicides and many other crimes in 2025 (e.g., Council on Criminal Justice found a 21% drop in homicides across 35 large cities), but major independent analysts and the CCJ caution that the causes of the decline are uncertain and that the report does not attribute the drop to specific federal policies. Because the administration’s causal claim is not supported by rigorous evidence and experts say attributing the 2025 decline to specific federal deployments or immigration actions is premature, the statement is misleading: it accurately reports the administration’s claim but overstates what the evidence can support.