US EditionDC Mayor Bowser: Trump police takeover ‘unsettling and unprecedented’
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AUG 11 – Mayor Bowser calls the federal takeover of D.C. police "unsettling," citing a 26% drop in violent crime despite increased federal law enforcement presence, including nearly 450 officers deployed.
- On Monday, Mayor Muriel Bowser criticized President Donald Trump's announcement to federalize the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard in the nation's capital.
- Trump made this decision amid an attempted carjacking of a former White House staffer and has threatened similar actions in other cities like Chicago and Baltimore.
- Bowser emphasized that violent crime in D.C. has dropped to a 30-year low, declining 26% this year and nearly 50% over two years, and said no conditions exist to justify federal control.
- Bowser called the federal takeover "unsettling and unprecedented" but noted, "we are not totally surprised," and said comparisons to war-torn countries are false and hyperbolic.
- She pledged to keep working with the president on shared priorities while opposing unnecessary National Guard deployment that undermines local law enforcement and home rule.
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National Guard units are supposed to provide security in the supposedly highly criminal US capital – that's what Donald Trump wants. The mayor of D.C. finds clear words for this plan.
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