The plan appears to be part of a broader effort to shift the agency’s focus from tracking national security threats to fighting street crime.

While Trump has portrayed crime as out of control in many parts of the country, the FBI’s own data shows that violent crime rates nationally aresignificantly lower than they were two decades ago. A spike in violent crime during the Covid pandemic has abated, the data shows.

The FBI headquarters in Washington has added artifacts from the 2001 9/11 terror attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon to The FBI Experience tour.

FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement to Fox News Digital that the agency will continue combatting crime in Washington, D.C. until “every community is safe."