President Donald Trump said the federal government will take control of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department.

President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, arguing the

The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District’s police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement regardless of any city law.

President Donald Trump pressed his case for having taken federal control of the D.C. police department and deploying the D.C. National Guard in a Wednesday night social media post in which he also disputed the District’s data showing a drop in violent crime in recent years.

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy