The White House issues a daily summary, but basic questions about who is arrested, and who is arresting them, are going unanswered.

President Donald Trump’s crusade against crime in the nation’s capital has resulted in more than 450 arrests since Aug. 7, the White House announced Tuesday morning. Those arrests, fueled by an increase in federal agents on city streets, run the gamut of charges, from murder and assault to driving under the influence.

But a full picture about who has been arrested, where, for what and by whom is not yet clear.

Every day, the White House issues a summary of the previous night’s operation, including the number of arrests and some examples of arresting causes. Numbers of illegal firearms seized (68 overall as of Tuesday morning) and encampments cleared (48 overall) are included, too.

The Washington Post repeatedly reached out to the White House for the arrest records undergirding their statistics and has not received answers to questions about the specific details of each arrest.

D.C. police deferred a similar request, saying the information needed to come from the White House. When asked specifically about the number of arrests made by local officers, not federal agents, D.C. police directed the questions to the mayor’s office, which is not responsible for arrest data and did not respond.

As a result, there’s a black hole instead of the usually readily accessible basic information surrounding an arrest. For example, when D.C. police make an arrest there will be a “Public Incident Report” — a public document that includes, among other things: the offense and its location and date and a short description of what happened. D.C. police continue to provide the reports for crimes in which local officers made the arrest, but refuse to answer questions about many of the arrests made by the multiagency federal task force teams, despite D.C. police officers being embedded within many of them.

Between Aug. 7 and 19 last year, D.C. police alone made 667 arrests. It is unclear whether the numbers the White House is releasing each day include any D.C. police arrests or are solely limited to arrests made by federal officers. When asked to clarify whether the arrests being announced by the White House included any D.C. police arrests, a D.C. police spokesperson did not know.

D.C. police and the mayor’s office did not respond to a request asking for how many arrests local officers have made weekly throughout this summer.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing Tuesday that “nearly half of all the non-illegal alien related arrests have occurred in Wards Seven and Eight in the District of Columbia where we know there’s the highest rate of crime.”

Federal officers have been seen around the District wearing masks while making arrests and driving off in unmarked cars — making it difficult to discern which agency could provide information about who was arrested, where they were taken and why.

In an incident that garnered millions of views online, a Post reporter filmed Saturday as six masked law enforcement officers refused to answer questions about their identity or agency while detaining a moped driver. After video of the incident spread widely online, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson stated the officers were immigration enforcement and said they were masked “because of this increase in violence against them and doxing of their spouses and children.”

Local law requires D.C. police to display their badge and name plate, as well as provide a business card with their information to anyone who asks. Federal officers, though now deputized with the same arrest powers as local police, are not bound by the same laws.

The lack of specificity creates circumstances in which it is hard to say who is being arrested and who’s arresting them. Meanwhile, Trump continues to tout the progress of the operation — progress that, without publicly available arrest data, is difficult to measure.

Sitting in the Oval Office on Thursday, three days after he announced he was taking over the D.C. Police Department and sending in National Guard troops, Trump said his intervention in the nation’s capital was already working.

“Washington, D.C., is at its worst point and it will soon be at its best,” he told reporters.

On Monday, the president again said D.C. was, until recently, the most unsafe city in the country — and perhaps the world.

“Now, in just a short period of time, it is perhaps the safest, and getting better every single hour!” he wrote on Truth Social. “People are flocking to D.C. again, and soon, the beautification will begin!”