Property crime in major U.S. cities dropped 8 percent last year, but it remains relatively high in some of the cities recently targeted by President Trump’s threats of federal intervention.

While violent crime is relatively low in the West Coast cities of Portland, Ore., and San Francisco, both cities rank significantly higher among major cities when it comes to property crime (Nos. 2 and 13, respectively).

“Every American deserves to live in a community where they're not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted, or shot," Trump told reporters last week.

Trump said San Francisco would be the next major focus of his administration, saying, “It's a mess, and we have great support in San Francisco.”

California’s Democratic leaders fired back at the president. State Sen.

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