On Monday, in remarks filled with falsehoods and misleading statements, the president announced a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department to root out “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor.

The Metropolitan Police along with federal agencies tasked with helping curb crime in the nation’s capital are scrambling to figure out roles and strategy following President Donald Trump’s decision to declare a crime emergency and federalize DC’s police force,

Trump painted a portrait of a city overrun by criminals: Mayor Muriel Bowser disputed Trump’s justification for declaring a crime emergency in her city, noting that the capital's crime rate has been trending down after a post-pandemic increase that peaked in 2023.