DC Police Chief Orders Cooperation
Federal agents and National Guard deployed to combat rising violent crime, with aggravated assaults up 37% since 2022, ending Washington D.C.'s sanctuary city protections.
- On Thursday, Washington, D.C.'s police chief ordered greater cooperation between local officers and federal immigration authorities amid a federal takeover.
- This followed Attorney General Pam Bondi's reversal of local policies limiting police collaboration with ICE, using President Trump's emergency powers invoked earlier this week.
- Guard members and federal agents from the DEA, FBI, and Homeland Security deployed across the city, assisting in crowd control, patrolling, and supporting arrests made on Wednesday night.
- Reports indicated that 45 individuals were arrested Wednesday night, 29 of whom were undocumented immigrants, while Bondi asserted that Washington, D.C. would no longer serve as a refuge for criminal aliens.
- The federal intervention reshapes law enforcement roles in D.C., signaling a shift away from sanctuary policies and an increased emphasis on immigration enforcement under federal oversight.
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DC police chief orders cooperation
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TAKEOVER
As federal activity takes root in DC, police chief orders cooperation
WASHINGTON — The Washington, D.C., police chief ordered more cooperation between her officers and federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump’s law enforcement takeover of the nation’s capital took root Thursday.


Washington's chief of police, D.C., ordered Thursday an increase in cooperation between local police and federal immigration agencies, in an already tense environment after President Donald Trump's intense security measures put the city's police force under the leadership of the administration.
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