Jeanine Pirro was tasked by Donald Trump with cleaning up Washington.
Now Trump's prosecutor is posting numbers Biden's team never could.
Jeanine Pirro just revealed the single statistic that explains everything – and it puts Biden's Justice Department on trial.
Biden's DC Prosecutor Had a 67 Percent Declination Rate and Bodies Piled Up
For four years, Biden's handpicked U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. ran the most dysfunctional prosecutor's office in America.
Matthew Graves declined to prosecute 67% of all arrests brought to him by D.C. police in 2022.
Two out of every three people dragged in by cops – including career felons carrying illegal guns – walked out the door.
Heritage Foundation analysts testified before Congress that Graves ignored juvenile crime entirely, giving the city's criminal class the message that nothing would happen to them.
Teenagers ran carjacking rings. Armed recidivists racked up a dozen arrests without ever seeing the inside of a prison cell. By 2023, D.C. homicides had hit a 20-year high.
Graves had an answer for all of it: blame the crime lab. Blame the courts. Blame the police.
D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee wasn't buying it. He said publicly that the average homicide suspect in the city had been arrested 11 times before committing the murder. Arrested and released, every time – because Biden's U.S. attorney wouldn't prosecute.
That was Biden's Washington.
Jeanine Pirro's DC Crime Crackdown Cut Homicides 66 Percent in One Year
Jeanine Pirro took over as U.S. Attorney for D.C. in May 2025. Her approach was the opposite of Graves' in every way that counted.
Where Graves let 67% of arrests walk, Pirro prosecuted more than 90%.
Where Graves gave juvenile offenders a pass, Pirro pursues them through every available charge.
Graves allowed cashless bail to recycle the same criminals through the same streets; Pirro's zero-tolerance policy ended that revolving door.
Pirro didn't do it alone. Trump had already declared war on D.C. crime before she logged her first day.
In August 2025, he deployed the National Guard to the streets of the nation's capital – a city that had become an international embarrassment, with foreign diplomats and tourists dodging carjackers blocks from the Capitol.
The Guard provided a visible deterrent while Pirro's office built cases. Together they formed the Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, a 3,100-person operation pulling agents from 28 federal agencies.
The results landed fast.
Violent crime in D.C. fell 29% in 2025 – Trump's first year back. Homicides dropped 66%. Carjackings collapsed 82%. In the first three weeks of January 2026, Washington recorded zero homicides for the first time in decades. As of year-end 2025, Pirro's task force had logged 8,406 arrests and pulled 856 illegal firearms off D.C. streets.
"We are prosecuting crime like never before in the District of Columbia," Pirro said. "Fewer than 10% of the cases go unprosecuted, compared to almost 70% of the cases that went unprosecuted in the last administration."
By March 2026, homicides were running 65% below the same period a year earlier. Property crime was down 28%. The White House reported that D.C.'s murder rate had fallen to its lowest level since 1900.
Trump's State of the Union claim that Washington crime sat at "the lowest level ever recorded" wasn't spin. The data backed him up.
What This Actually Proves About Democrat Governance
Washington D.C. didn't have a crime problem. It had a prosecution problem.
The criminals were always there. The guns were always there. What was missing was a prosecutor who would put them away and keep them there.
Biden installed a man who spent more energy chasing January 6th defendants than armed felons in D.C. neighborhoods. Graves dispatched prosecutors from Boston, Los Angeles, and New Mexico to work Capitol riot cases while the city he was supposed to protect bled out. His office's own data showed it charged 90% of serious crimes in 2018 – before Biden got involved. Under Graves, that commitment evaporated.
Pirro stepped in, flipped the prosecution rate from 33% to 90%, and the homicide rate dropped 66%.
Every Democrat who defended Graves's declination rates, every politician who called zero-tolerance enforcement racist, every activist who cheered when charges got dropped – they own those 20-year-high murder numbers. They made those choices. Real people died as a result.
Matthew Graves had 330 prosecutors, a $100 million budget, and four years. He gave Washington a 20-year homicide high and walked out the door blaming everyone else.
Jeanine Pirro has had ten months. The murder rate just hit its lowest point since 1900.
Sources:
- Tom Rogan, "Trump and Pirro Deserve Credit for Big Cuts to Washington Crime," Washington Examiner, March 24, 2026.
- Greg Norman-Diamond, "Pirro Touts DC Crime Is Being Prosecuted 'Like Never Before' in Announcing Year-End Stats," Fox News, January 6, 2026.
- "Pirro Credits 'Enhanced Federal Partnership' for DC's First Homicide-Free Stretch in Decades," Fox News, February 3, 2026.
- "Why DC Crime Has Reached Historic Lows in 2026," The Daily Signal, February 2, 2026.
- "President Trump Returned Our Nation to Law and Order," White House, February 2026.
- Charles "Cully" Stimson, "Matthew Graves' Abysmal Legacy as U.S. Attorney for D.C.," Heritage Foundation.
- "Violent Crime Drops 19% in Major U.S. Cities as Trump Credits His Policies," Washington Times, February 12, 2026.
