President Donald Trump and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel announced a major update on Wednesday about the administration’s sweeping crackdown on crime.
Patel announced that through Operation Summer Heat, officials have made 8,629 arrests, seized 2,261 firearms, 421 kilograms of fentanyl, and nearly 45,000 kilograms of cocaine between June 24 and September 20, 2025. There was also an 86% increase in arrests of violent criminals in comparison to former President Joe Biden’s administration.
In seven months, federal law enforcement arrested a record of 28,600 violent criminals, Patel said.
“This is what happens when you take out the weaponization. This number is historic by every metric, 28,000 people have been arrested. Violent felons alone,” Patel said in the Oval Office. (RELATED: Residents In One Of DC’s Roughest Wards Say Trump’s Crime Crackdown Needed)
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Throughout the Biden administration, the FBI arrested between 15,000 and 17,113 violent criminals, according to the White House.
The administration has cracked down on crime in major U.S. cities by deploying the National Guard to increase the number of arrests in the areas. In Washington, D.C., federal law enforcement arrested over 3,500 criminals since the federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department in August, according to CBS News.
The National Guard has also been deployed to Memphis, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois. The Memphis Safe Task Force has arrested at least 800 individuals as of Monday, including those suspected of homicide and narcotics.
