Vance dismissed those figures Wednesday, saying he was “highly skeptical that a majority of DC residents don’t want their city to have better public safety and more reasonable safety standards.”

Top officials in the Trump administration have visited National Guard troops in Washington, to support a deployment that's left parts of the US capital looking like occupied territory.

“D.C. is already safer than it was nine days ago, but we are going to make it safer to come. This is your city,” said Vance.