RT Nick Sortor (@nicksortor)🚨 BREAKING: The President of the DC Police Union has come out in FULL SUPPORT of President Trump's takeover of the police department"We completely agree with the President that the crime in the District of Columbia is out of control and something needs to be done.The fact that we need help from federal law enforcement and maybe even the National Guard should not, as a surprise." ...

It is day 204 of the second Trump administration and today Donald Trump announced he will take over Washington DC's police force and send in hundreds of National Guard troops in an effort to fight crime. Tonight, a White House official says those troops will be on the ground as soon as tomorrow. Trump says Washington is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, even though DC police statistics show violent crime there is at a 30-year low.My colleague Gay Gutierrez has those details and gets us started ...

In Washington DC, homicides are down 32%, robberies are down 39%, armed carjackings are down 53%, assaults with a dangerous weapon are down 27%. In Washington, DC, the rates of burglaries and assaults with a dangerous weapon are at their lowest point in 30 years. Nevertheless, because he's so tough on crime, President Trump today deployed hundreds of National Guardsmen and women into Washington DC.send the US military to become the police force in Washington DC. The lead in the Washington Post tonight, quot ...

This morning, Trump said he would be placing the DC Police Department under federal control and deploying at least 800 National Guard troops to the district, citing what he says is outofcontrol crime with an emphasis on juvenile crime. Take a listen to how Trump falsely described the nation's capital, where more than 700,000 everyday Americans live and work. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedum, and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in DC, and ...

crime in DC according to DC Metro Police is down 26% since last year. So why do this now. Well, you know, the the operative part of that question is since last year.So if last year we had or the year before we had the fourth highest murder rate in the country, why are you so proud of the fact that crime has gone down. Gone down from what. Gone down from when.Crime is way too high in the district. And you know this Nambi Bambi response that all crime is down. No, it isn't down for the people who are victimiz ...

So, the National Guard headed to Washington right now. The president announcing earlier today, what exactly motivated this move? The most immediate motivation appears to have been this attack on a former Doge staffer who was beaten up, but I think this is a much longer backstory than that. I mean, the president has had his complaints about DC and the idea that it was this crimeridden place going all the way back to his first term. and he's had kind of this broader concern about crime in cities. But this eme ...

Is crime in Washington DC 'out of control', as Trump claims? https://t.co/Fkl2HoEI8k ...

If it's Monday, a crackdown on crime or a crackdown on the capital. President Trump orders his attorney general to take command of Washington DC's police force as he deploys hundreds of National Guard troops to patrol the district. Plus, President Trump sets expectations for his face-to-face meeting with Russian President Putin in Alaska, saying land swapping will be a key part of a peace deal, despite push back from Ukrain Ukrainian President Zalinsky, who won't even be in an attendance. And a federal judg ...

All right, that's Mayor Muriel Bowser. She's uh said that she wasn't um entirely surprised by this move from President Donald Trump. She believes that the president's view of DC was shaped by his COVID area era experience uh in the city and and that was when crime was spiking.But as we have noted, crime has been on the decline. Joining us now, MSNBC justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Delaneian, staff writer for the Atlantic, Michael Sharer, author of the Red Letter on Substack, Tara Palm Mary, and r ...

Joining me now is Washington DC Council Member Robert White. And Council Member White, the president today described Washington DC as what he said, ridden with quote crime, bloodshed, bedum, and squalor. How would you respond to this description the president has of the capital city.>> I think we have to be rooted in fact, Ryan. The the fact is uh crime is at its lowest point in 30 years, violent crime specifically. Um, and so unfortunately DC is once again used as a political pawn uh for other measures.Tha ...