{"id":12812,"date":"2025-09-02T01:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-declares-dc-a-crime-free-zone-in-push-for-cities-to-work-with-us\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:20:34","slug":"trump-declares-dc-a-crime-free-zone-in-push-for-cities-to-work-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-declares-dc-a-crime-free-zone-in-push-for-cities-to-work-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump declares DC a &#8216;crime free zone&#8217; in push for cities to &#8216;work with us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump declared Washington, D.C., a &ldquo;crime free zone&rdquo; and pushed for other Democratic-run cities to work with his administration to bring down the crime rate in their areas. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump touted the &ldquo;very popular&rdquo; D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and urged other Democrats to follow&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/national-security\/5480531-trump-declares-dc-crime-free-zone\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump declared Washington, D.C., a &ldquo;crime free zone&rdquo; and pushed for other Democratic-run cities to work with his administration to bring down the crime rate in their areas. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump touted the &ldquo;very popular&rdquo; D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and urged other Democrats to follow&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}