Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) attempted to deliver a fact-check to President Donald Trump on violent crime in cities like Chicago, but X&#8217;s &#8220;AI assistant&#8221; Grok quickly set him straight.
The exchange began when Trump — who has said that he&#8217;ll send National Guard troops to Chicago to help clean up the rampant crime — posted a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115098161051613732">comment</a> on his Truth Social platform criticizing Pritzker and Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson over the violent crime in the city.
&#8220;A really DEADLY weekend in Chicago. 6 DEAD, 27 HURT IN CRIME SPREES ALLOVER THE CITY. Panic stricken Governor Pritzker says that crime is under control, when in fact it is just the opposite,&#8221; Trump posted. &#8220;He is an incompetent Governor who should call me for HELP. Mayor Johnson is no better. Make Chicago Great Again!&#8221;
Pritzker swooped in then, claiming that Trump was wrong to blame Democrats because a number of the cities with the highest homicide rates are in red states.
&#8220;According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago,&#8221; Pritzker said. &#8220;8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.&#8221;
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According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here. <a href="https://t.co/g75fR5aItA">pic.twitter.com/g75fR5aItA</a>
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPritzker/status/1960869680903496187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But when someone responded to Pritzker by inviting @grok to join the conversation and clear up some of the details — and to address which party was in control of the cities with the high homicide rates — the AI-generated response made it clear that Pritzker&#8217;s attempted fact-check had landed wide of the mark. Nearly every city in the top 20 for homicides in 2024 — all but one, in fact — was controlled by Democrats.
&#8220;Based on 2024 data (RIT study), top 20 US cities by homicide rate per 100k, with mayors &amp; parties (D=Democrat, R=Republican; note nonpartisan races but known affiliations): 1. St. Louis MO (54.4) &#8211; Cara Spencer (D); 2. New Orleans LA (34.7) &#8211; LaToya Cantrell (D); 3. Detroit MI (32.1) &#8211; Mike Duggan (D); 4. Washington DC (27.3) &#8211; Muriel Bowser (D); 5. Atlanta GA (24.7) &#8211; Andre Dickens (D); 6. Indianapolis IN (23.8) &#8211; Joseph Hogsett (D); 7. Richmond VA (23.0) &#8211; Danny Avula (D); 8. Chicago IL (21.7) &#8211; Brandon Johnson (D); 9. Compton CA (20.1) &#8211; Emma Sharif (D); 10. Oakland CA (18.6) &#8211; Barbara Lee (D); 11. Hartford CT (18.4) &#8211; Arunan Arulampalam (D); 12. Rochester NY (18.0) &#8211; Malik Evans (D); 13. Syracuse NY (15.2) &#8211; Sharon Owens (D); 14. Greensboro NC (14.1) &#8211; Nancy Vaughan (D); 15. Dallas TX (14.0) &#8211; Eric Johnson (R); 16. Buffalo NY (13.9) &#8211; Christopher Scanlon (D); 17. Pittsburgh PA (13.8) &#8211; Edward Gainey (D); 18. Newark NJ (12.2) &#8211; Ras Baraka (D); 19. Denver CO (8.4) &#8211; Mike Johnston (D); 20. Los Angeles CA (7.1) &#8211; Karen Bass (D).&#8221;
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Based on 2024 data (RIT study), top 20 US cities by homicide rate per 100k, with mayors &amp; parties (D=Democrat, R=Republican; note nonpartisan races but known affiliations):
1. St. Louis MO (54.4) &#8211; Cara Spencer (D) 
2. New Orleans LA (34.7) &#8211; LaToya Cantrell (D) 
3. Detroit MI…
— Grok (@grok) <a href="https://twitter.com/grok/status/1961006732723068973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In a viral video from Dundee, Scotland, three schoolgirls stand on a hilltop. One clutches a knife and a hatchet, brandishing them toward an advancing man. Another shields a third girl in a pink sweatshirt, her voice breaking as she cries: “Don’t touch my sister, she’s twelve!”
It is a moment that distills civilizational decline. In that scream lies the sound of failure — the burden of defense shifted from the strong to the small, from institutions to children. Collapse rarely announces itself with flames and rubble; more often, it creeps in through abdication. 
The state’s first response was not to <a href="https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/08/26/fourteen-year-old-scottish-girl-arrested-for-resisting-probable-assault-by-migrants-n2193258">confront the predator, but to charge the girl</a> for holding a weapon to defend herself and her sister.
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This is the inversion of justice that defines too much of Western life today: The fear of offending a racial and religious minority outweighs the fear of harming innocent civilians, including and especially young girls and women. “Tolerance” is stretched to excuse the intolerable, and girls are left to bear the costs of the public class’s cowardice. The impulse to confront evil has been hollowed out, replaced by the reflex to punish those who resist it or even name it.
The forthcoming “Women and the West” report, which I authored for Independent Women, reckons with this reality. It documents how Western societies practice what scholars call “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NknDCkgdENQ">suicidal empathy</a>” — the refusal to confront illiberal practices, even when they imperil women. It is why <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/grooming-gangs-in-uk-thrived-in-culture-of-ignorance-casey-report-says">British authorities ignored grooming gangs</a> that preyed on thousands of girls, because the men were Pakistani Muslims and the girls were largely white. It is why Sweden, once among the safest nations on earth, now faces <a href="https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/sweden-immigrants-crisis/">epidemic levels of sexual violence</a>. Why a Dundee schoolgirl is treated as a criminal while her desperate cry — “She’s twelve!” — is brushed aside.
But the tragedy extends beyond abandoned girls. It is also about men stripped of their civilizational role as protectors. Where were the men in Dundee? Where were the men in Rottingham and in the other cities across the UK while their daughters were being raped? We know the legal system bears the brunt of the blame: Those who act are punished. In the UK, even those who speak out about what happens risk jail.
America knows this story too: <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-interrogation-of-daniel-penny">Daniel Penny,</a> a Marine veteran, intervened on a New York subway to restrain a violent man threatening passengers. For protecting strangers, he was not honored but indicted. The message on both sides of the Atlantic is too often: step forward, risk prison; stay silent, stay safe. But safety purchased by silence comes at the cost of culture itself. A society that criminalizes protectors breeds passive men and terrified women. Ultimately Americans rallied around Daniel Penny. Our commitment to free speech and to the sacred concept of the right to self-defense trumped our tendency for suicidal empathy. Will the UK rally around this brave girl in Scotland? 
The fate of women has always been the measure of a civilization’s strength. Where law is upheld and courage honored, women thrive. Where cowardice reigns and defenders are vilified, women and girls suffer first and most. From Kabul to Cologne to Dundee, the pattern holds.
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True liberalism never meant limitless tolerance. It meant ordered liberty: borders that protect sovereignty, cultures bound by shared norms, and institutions willing to enforce justice without apology. Instead, in the name of inclusivity, we deny reality, manipulate statistics, silence dissent, and prosecute children while excusing the predators who terrify them.
A frightened girl’s cry — “She’s twelve!” — is not just a viral clip. It is a warning. We have reached a point where the natural defenders of civilization — its men — are absent or penalized, and where its most vulnerable — its girls — are forced to take up arms in their stead.
Strength sustains freedom. Freedom safeguards women. If the West cannot recover the will to defend its daughters and honor its sons who rise to protect, then our undoing will not come by invasion from without but surrender from within.
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Meaghan Mobbs, PhD, is the Director of the Center for American Safety and Security at Independent Women. She is the President of the R.T. Weatherman Foundation, a private operating foundation, providing humanitarian support in Ukraine. She is a presidential appointee to the Board of Visitors at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a gubernatorial appointee to Board of Visitors at the Virginia Military Academy.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘She’s Twelve!’: Scottish Girls Left To Defend Themselves In Viral Video

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Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker hit back at President Donald Trump on Monday, as the president considers deploying the National Guard to Chicago.
Trump said in the Oval Office that he would like to work with Democratic governors and mayors to deploy the National Guard to major cities to address violent crime. Pritzker <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04p3OJdhpU&amp;list=RDNSQ04p3OJdhpU&amp;start_radio=1">responded</a> to Trump’s comments during a press conference with local and state Democratic leaders, saying that Trump and the National Guard are “neither wanted here nor needed here.”
“If this was really about fighting crime or making the streets safe, what possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor, or the police?” Pritzker asked. “Let me answer that question. This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try to intimidate his political rivals.”
The Illinois governor said that Trump’s plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago are “exactly the type of overreach that our country’s founders warned against.”
“Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’” Priztker added. “Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’”
While Trump has not officially taken any step toward deploying the National Guard or federal law enforcement agents to Chicago, he said last week that the Windy City would be “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-chicago-is-next-for-d-c-style-federal-law-enforcement-operation">next</a>” after he ordered the National Guard and federal agents to address violent crime in the nation’s capital. On Monday, the president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/that-guy-is-a-disaster-trump-rips-into-another-blue-state-governor-with-presidential-dreams">continued</a> his calls for a National Guard deployment in Chicago, adding that he would prefer that Democratic leaders ask him to send in the troops.
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“You really want to be asked to go, you know,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians, like a guy like Pritzker. He ought to spend more time at the gym, actually.”
“That guy is a disaster,” he added.
Among U.S. cities with more than one million residents, Chicago has faced the highest murder rate for seven straight years, according to <a href="https://www.rit.edu/liberalarts/sites/rit.edu.liberalarts/files/docs/CPSI%20Working%20Papers/2025-02_CPSI%20Working%20Paper_US%20City%20Homicide%20Stats.pdf">data</a> put together by the Rochester Institute of Technology and <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/yes-chicago-has-a-crime-problem-just-ask-its-residents/">cited</a> by the White House. In 2024, Chicago had a homicide rate of 21.7 per 100,000 people. Chicago’s murder rate was three times higher than that of Los Angeles and more than five times higher than New York’s. The Trump administration is also reportedly considering sending in the National Guard to address violent crime in Los Angeles and New York City.
Trump enraged Democrats when he sidestepped California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles earlier this summer as parts of the county faced violent anti-ICE protests. Newsom sued the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment, and the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-guard-los-angeles-deployment-trial-day-3/">decision</a> in that case is currently pending before a federal judge.

‘Do Not Come To Chicago’: Pritzker Fires Back At Trump’s Threat To Deploy National Guard

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President Donald Trump targeted Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) in a post on Sunday morning, lashing out at him over an invitation to &#8220;walk the streets&#8221; in Maryland and saying that he would not do so until Moore took steps to clean up crime.
Trump took aim at Moore — who has been floated as a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 — in a post shared first on his Truth Social platform, comparing him to another of the Democratic Party&#8217;s top prospects (California Governor Gavin Newsom) in the process.
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&#8220;Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has asked, in a rather nasty and provocative tone, that I &#8216;walk the streets of Maryland&#8217; with him,&#8221; Trump began. &#8220;I assume he is talking about out of control, crime ridden, Baltimore?&#8221;
&#8220;As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a &#8216;walk,'&#8221; Trump continued, arguing that Moore should have to clean up the city before he asked the President of the United States to join him there. &#8220;Wes Moore’s record on Crime is a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other &#8216;Blue States&#8217; are doing.&#8221;
The president went on to jab at Newsom (D-CA), saying that he could always send troops into Baltimore like he&#8217;d done in Los Angeles.
&#8220;But if Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the &#8216;troops,&#8217; which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime. After only one week, there is NO CRIME AND NO MURDER IN DC! When it is like that in Baltimore, I will proudly &#8216;walk the streets&#8217; with the failing, because of Crime, Governor of Maryland,&#8221; Trump added.
&#8220;P.S. Baltimore is ranked the 4th WORST CITY IN THE NATION IN CRIME &amp; MURDER. Stop talking and get to work, Wes,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;I’ll then see you on the streets!!! Also, I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that decision??? Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT.&#8221;
Trump has also suggested that he will send troops to Chicago in an effort to bring down the violent crime rate there as well.

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‘Stop Talking And Get To Work’: Trump Targets Top Dem Governor In Sunday Morning Scolding

'Stop Talking And Get To Work': Trump Targets Top Dem Governor In Sunday Morning Scolding

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President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday that Chicago is next on his list of places where he wants to use his power to root out violent crime.
Speaking to reporters and praising federal agents for the violent crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., Trump set his sights on Chicago, where gang violence and shootings have become the norm under Democratic leadership.
&#8220;Chicago is a mess, you have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we will straighten that one out next. That will be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/i-think-chicago-will-be-next-president-trump-signals-plans-to-extend-crackdown-on-crime-to-chicago/">said</a>.
Trump also hinted at moving federal resources to New York City after taking care of Chicago.
&#8220;And the people in Chicago &#8230; are screaming for us to come. They are wearing red hats, just like this one,&#8221; Trump said, referring to his &#8220;Trump Was Right About Everything&#8221; hat. “African American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, ‘Please, Mr. Trump, come to Chicago, please.’ I did great with the black vote, as you know, and they want something to happen. So, I think Chicago will be next and then we’ll help with New York.”
While Chicago has reported a decrease in homicides and other violent crimes in recent years, the Windy City is still <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/03/11/homicides-drop-nationwide-chicago-lags-behind-other-major-cities-why">lagging behind</a> some other major cities in tackling its murder problem. In 2023, Chicago reported 617 homicides, which was a decrease from the 715 murders in 2022, but still higher than America&#8217;s two largest cities, New York City and Los Angeles.
Earlier this month, 34 people were shot, five of whom were killed, in shootings across Chicago during one weekend, ABC 7 Chicago <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-10-shot-2-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/17483197/">reported</a>. The violence has continued this week, with three people killed and another person wounded in multiple shootings in the city on Thursday, according to <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-crime-garfield-park-shootings">Fox 32</a>.
Chicago&#8217;s elected Democratic politicians criticized Trump over his comments on sending troops to the city, with Mayor Brandon Johnson calling Trump&#8217;s approach &#8220;uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound,&#8221; according to <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/i-think-chicago-will-be-next-president-trump-signals-plans-to-extend-crackdown-on-crime-to-chicago/">WGN 9</a>.
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&#8220;Unlawfully deploying the National Guard to Chicago has the potential to inflame tensions between residents and law enforcement when we know that trust between police and residents is foundational to building safer communities,&#8221; Johnson added. &#8220;An unlawful deployment would be unsustainable and would threaten to undermine the historic progress we have. In the past year alone, we have reduced homicides by more than 30%, robberies by 35%, and shootings by almost 40%. We need to continue to invest in what is working.&#8221;
Federal and local law enforcement have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/feds-nab-suspected-ms-13-gangster-top-700-arrests-dc-crackdown">arrested</a> over 700 suspected criminals on the capital&#8217;s streets since Trump sent in federal agents and the National Guard, with most of the arrests taking place in D.C.&#8217;s highest crime areas, according to the White House. D.C. police also reported a murder-free eight days stretching back to last Thursday, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-has-murder-free-week-ag-bondi-touts-77-more-arrests-federal-takeover">Fox News</a>.
In Washington, D.C., Trump has the authority to deploy National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officers through the &#8220;Home Rule Act.&#8221; Deploying the National Guard to another American city wouldn&#8217;t be as simple and would likely require Trump to sidestep Democratic Governor JB Pritzker, similar to what the president did when he sent troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer. That move was challenged in court and is currently before a federal judge.

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Washington, D.C. isn’t just any city, it’s our nation’s capital — where Americans go to conduct the business of our nation and to celebrate our history. More than that, it’s a place many call home.
Unfortunately, thanks to the work of local elected officials and their radical progressive <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/25/7-changes-congress-should-make-before-restoring-d-c-s-bloated-billion-dollars-in-funding/">policies</a>, the District of Columbia is now incredibly unsafe.
A quick <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcS3wkDf4MU">listen</a> to reporters in the White House Press Briefing Room reacting to President Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown shows just how bad things have gotten. Many have personally been victimized in D.C., or at least have friends or family members who have.
And it’s no wonder. For years, local D.C. Council members have proudly proclaimed their plans to <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/the-dc-city-council-failed-criminal-justice-reform-congress-must-fix-it">decriminalize</a> entire swaths of problematic conduct and to only allow relatively lenient sentences even for those convicted of very violent crimes.
On top of that, council members have touted their plans to <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/dcs-radical-criminal-code-reform-would-make-city-even-less-safe">defund</a> the Metropolitan Police Department (MPDC) and to impose onerous restrictions on officers while performing their duties.
The result? MPDC is facing a historic staffing crisis, with some saying it will take a decade or more for the force to recover and be fully staffed.
But, fortunately, President Trump and his administration have stepped in to take action to protect our nation’s capital — something the Framers of our Constitution always <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4034744">intended</a>. Federal officials have the final say — and responsibility — for what happens in Washington, D.C.
As provided by the <a href="https://dccouncil.gov/dc-home-rule/">Home Rule Act</a>, the president has directly taken control of the local police force. He has deployed D.C.’s national guard to help patrol and make up for the police department’s manpower shortage, and he has surged federal law enforcement resources — FBI, DEA, ATF, etc. — to help patrol too.
The initial results have been staggering. D.C.’s police union <a href="https://x.com/DCPoliceUnion/status/1957435067258577173">highlighted</a> that in the first seven days of Trump’s law enforcement surge, carjackings dropped 83% compared to the same period a week earlier. Robberies dropped by 46%. Car thefts dropped by 21%. And violent crime overall dropped by 22%.
Even more shocking and welcome news is that for the first time in a long time, the District went an entire week <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-dc-just-had-murder-free-week-yes-dems-trump-did">without a murder</a> committed within its borders. That’s even more impressive considering that murder rates tend to spike during the hot and humid summer months.
While President Trump has <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/trump-patrol-dc-military-law-enforcement-thursday-night-officials-say">joined</a> law enforcement to see firsthand what they experience while patrolling the streets and Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other senior administration officials <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/vp-vance-visits-national-guard-union-station-amid-dc-protests">visit and listen</a> to deployed national guard troops around the capital, some local officials seek to frustrate these effective crime fighting tactics.
For example, D.C.’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the president, claiming that the Home Rule Act — and the Constitution — don’t really mean what they say.
Schwalb <a href="https://x.com/DCAttorneyGen/status/1956339474633253098">claims</a> that the President can’t really control D.C.’s local police and that any actions must run through local officials — who generally oppose his efforts. There’s no discretion there for the mayor or the D.C. AG to second guess the president. It would be an odd situation for an inferior official to tell the president how to discharge his duties. And yet, that’s exactly what local D.C. officials are trying to do.
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But more to the point, it’s unfortunate that local D.C. officials and others on the Left are denying that there’s even a crime crisis in D.C. After all, denying a problem exists doesn’t make it go away.
Thankfully, President Trump and his administration are taking long-overdue and much-needed actions to transform our nation’s capital from a cautionary tale of the harmful results of progressive policies to a shining example of America’s greatness.
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Zack Smith is a legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

President Trump Visits Law Enforcement And National Guard During D.C. Crime Crackdown

A Week Without Murder: Trump’s Crackdown Restores Safety To Washington, D.C.

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The Democrat attorney general of Washington, D.C., sued Friday to stop President Donald Trump’s efforts to fight crime and decrease homelessness in the nation’s capital. 
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the takeover of the D.C. police department by the federal government. Schwab claimed that Trump’s actions to clean up the city were “brazenly unlawful” and an “affront to the dignity” of those who lived in the district. 
“We are suing to block the federal government takeover of DC police. By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law. This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it,” Schwalb <a href="https://x.com/DCAttorneyGen/status/1956339480815669309">said</a>. “The federal government&#8217;s power over DC is not absolute, and it should not be exercised as such.”
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-gonna-take-our-capital-back-heres-everything-trump-is-going-to-do-to-clean-up-d-c?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘We’re+Gonna+Take+Our+Capital+Back’%3A+Here’s+Everything+Trump+Is+Going+To+Do+To+Clean+Up+D.C.">signed</a> an executive order earlier this week declaring a crime emergency in the capital, giving him authority under Section 740 of the 1973 Home Rule Act to take control of the police department. DEA administrator Terry Cole has been named the head of the department. 
Schwalb’s lawsuit argues that Trump is illegally exercising control over the police department through a misapplication of Section 740.  
“The Administration&#8217;s actions are brazenly unlawful. They go well beyond the bounds of the President&#8217;s limited authority and instead seek a hostile takeover of MPD. They infringe on the District&#8217;s right to self-governance and put the safety of DC residents and visitors at risk,” Schwalb claimed. “This is an affront to the dignity and autonomy of the 700,000 Americans who call DC home. Our office will go to court to defend Home Rule, block the unlawful orders, and maintain MPD under District control. We have no choice but to stand up for DC residents&#8217; rights and safety.”
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In recent days, Trump has deployed agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Capitol Police, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to D.C. to crack down on crime. He has also sent around 800 National Guard troops to assist with the efforts to secure the city. 
While Democrat officials and legacy media outlets have argued that crime in the district is not a problem, statistics suggest otherwise. 
The homicide rate in D.C. in 2024 reached 27.3 per 100,000 residents, giving the U.S. capital the fourth-highest homicide rate of any city in the country. So far in 2025, D.C. authorities have also <a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime">reported</a>  541 assaults with a dangerous weapon, over 900 robberies, and nearly 3,000 motor vehicle thefts. While the city has reported lower violent crime levels since record highs from 2020 to 2023, violent crime remains much higher in D.C. than it did 10-15 years ago.

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While Democrats and many in media scramble to oppose President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to use federal law enforcement to clean up Washington, D.C., Geraldo Rivera conceded that the nation&#8217;s capital &#8220;has been a s***-hole for a long time.&#8221;
Rivera gave his assessment during a recent appearance on NewsNation, saying that the rampant violent crime in the city was as bad as it had ever been — and may even have gotten worse.
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&#8220;D.C. has been — with all due respect to our nation’s capital — a sh*thole for a long time.&#8221;
&#8220;If anything, it is worse than ever!&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/BIM919OKzN">pic.twitter.com/BIM919OKzN</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1955789799379623977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;D.C. has been, with all due respect to our nation&#8217;s capital, a s***-hole for a long time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, it reminds me of the old LaGuardia airport that was — became so ghettoized, and so grim and dark and melancholy, that you get used to it.&#8221;
Of the National Guardsmen deployed to the city, he added, &#8220;Remember, these are citizen soldiers, the Guard. In broad strokes, I agree that the military should not be deployed for a law enforcement purpose. But these people, the Guard, the citizen soldiers are there for a different reason. They&#8217;re there to calm people down and to also project a presence. You see a couple of Guardsmen, even if they don&#8217;t have their long guns — and they don&#8217;t, thank God, have them as they are deployed — they&#8217;re there in a support function.&#8221;
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Rivera had previously posted his opinion on X, saying, &#8220;Trump’s right about shabby, scary Washington DC. When modest-sized city celebrates having &#8216;only&#8217; 187 murders last year, it’s bad. Homeless encampments, public hard drug use, graffiti, filth; past time for the feds to paid attention to cleaning it up. Biden didn’t, due respect.&#8221;
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Trump’s right about shabby, scary Washington DC. 
When modest-sized city celebrates having “only” 187 murders last year, it’s bad. Homeless encampments, public hard drug use, graffiti, filth; past time for the feds to paid attention to cleaning it up. Biden didn’t, due respect.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1955424425219616966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt provided an update on Thursday morning regarding President Donald Trump&#8217;s federal operation to combat violent crime in Washington, D.C., saying that 45 more people were arrested on Wednesday night.
In addition to the 45 arrests made by federal authorities in collaboration with D.C. police, federal agents also detained 29 suspected illegal immigrants, Leavitt said. The charges against those arrested overnight on Wednesday included second- and first-degree assault and distribution of illegal drugs and narcotics. Authorities also seized three illegal firearms while making some of those arrests.
&#8220;In addition to that, there were 29 illegal aliens who were removed off of Washington, D.C., streets last night, many of whom had final orders of removal,&#8221; the White House press secretary told &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221; &#8220;So these results are happening night after night because of the efforts of this federal task force that [is] working alongside the Metropolitan Police Department, who agree with this effort.&#8221;
&#8220;While Democrats want to rant and rave and coddle criminals, President Trump wants to put them behind bars, and that&#8217;s what this task force is focused on doing for the next 28 days,&#8221; Leavitt added.
Leavitt also argued that the &#8220;huge law enforcement presence&#8221; in the streets of the nation&#8217;s capital is deterring more violent crime.
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Leavitt&#8217;s latest update adds to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-will-be-safe-again-feds-kick-off-trumps-violent-crime-crackdown-with-over-100-arrests?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=D.C.+%E2%80%98WILL+Be+Safe+Again%E2%80%99%3A%C2%A0Feds+Kick+Off+Trump%E2%80%99s+Violent+Crime+Crackdown+With+Over+100+Arrests">total arrest</a> number revealed on Wednesday, when Fox News reported that federal authorities made over 100 arrests between August 7-12. Following Trump&#8217;s order to federalize D.C. police, agents with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Capitol Police, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives descended upon the nation’s capital. Trump also deployed around 800 National Guard troops to assist with federal efforts to crack down on crime in D.C.
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FBI Director Kash Patel said on Tuesday that his agents assisted in the arrest of at least 10 people, including one arrest &#8220;on a search warrant for a prior murder charge.&#8221; Democratic Congressional and city leaders continue to push back on Trump&#8217;s plan to address D.C.&#8217;s violent crime. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser argues that crime in the capital &#8220;is at its lowest level in 30 years.&#8221;
&#8220;We had an unacceptable spike in 2023, so we changed our laws and strategies. Now, crime levels are not only down from 2023, but from before the pandemic,&#8221; Bowser <a href="https://x.com/MayorBowser/status/1955408828964671749">said</a> earlier this week. &#8220;Our tactics are working, and we aren’t taking our foot off the gas.&#8221;
The president disagreed, and he took to Truth Social on Wednesday evening to cast doubt on the city&#8217;s official crime data.
&#8220;The Violent Crime Rate in D.C. has worsened, and the Murder Rate has essentially DOUBLED in just over a decade — But these are only the &#8216;official&#8217; statistics released by corrupt City Officials. The REAL numbers are many times worse,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115024069066734919">wrote</a>. &#8220;In fact, a Precinct Commander was just suspended for allegedly manipulating the Violent Crime Statistics, and the D.C. Police Union, likewise, says the real numbers are much higher.&#8221;
The president notched another major victory on Thursday when Washington, D.C., Police Chief Pamela A. Smith announced that the city would break from its &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; policies, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-effect-d-c-police-break-from-sanctuary-city-policies-will-cooperate-with-ice?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Effect%3A+D.C.+Police+Break+From+Sanctuary+City+Policies%2C+Will+Cooperate+With+ICE">reported</a>.
“Effective immediately, members may assist federal immigration enforcement agencies with the following: Sharing information about persons not in MPD custody (e.g., during traffic stops). Providing transportation for federal immigration agency employees and detained subjects,” a press release signed by Chief Smith stated.

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A man charged over a July 26 mob attack in Cincinnati now faces up to 15 years in prison after being hit by the feds with a gun charge. 
The Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/cincinnati-man-allegedly-involved-downtown-brawl-charged-federal-gun-crime">announced</a> Wednesday that 34-year-old Montanez Merriweather had been indicted for illegally possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. Merriweather had previously been arrested over the beating of a man and a woman that was caught in a viral video. 
“There is no place for violence in our communities,” said U.S. Attorney Dominick Gerace II. “Those who commit violent acts can expect to be scrutinized and they will be held accountable for violations of federal criminal law.”
Merriweather faces local assault, felonious assault, and aggravated riot charges. He faces almost 30 years in prison on those charges. 
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“Violence, in any form and under any circumstance, has no place in a civilized society. When warranted, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in close coordination with our law enforcement partners, will employ the full extent of our legal authority and resources to identify, apprehend, and remove violent offenders from our communities,” said ATF special agent Thomas Greco. 
Video of the attack shows a white man being thrown to the ground and kicked and punched by a group of black people outside of a music festival. After the beaten man got up, a white woman was punched in the face and appeared to be knocked unconscious. The video quickly circulated online, prompting condemnations from state and national leaders.
In response, the FBI launched an investigation into the incident at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s direction. That came after Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-calls-for-man-caught-in-viral-video-punching-woman-to-be-jailed-for-a-very-long-time">condemned</a> the attack and urged the perpetrators to be thrown in prison. 
“What I saw, and I haven’t seen the full context, but what I saw is a mob of lawless thugs beating up on an innocent person, and it’s disgusting,” Vance said. “And I hope every single one of those people who engaged in violence is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And they will be. They will be so long as law enforcement in the state of Ohio takes their job seriously.”
Some local Cincinnati officials have accused the victims of instigating the beating. For example, City Council President Pro Tem Victoria Parks wrote a Facebook comment <a href="https://www.wlwt.com/article/cincinnati-downtown-fight-video-victoria-parks-ohio/65557368">saying</a> the victims “begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story.”

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The reason Washington, D.C. is in the news this week isn&#8217;t because of anything Donald Trump did. It&#8217;s because D.C., more than any other city in the country, is a monument to the sustained, managed decline of the United States. As our capital, the District is an unmistakable symbol of a pervasive mediocrity, at every level. Every aspect of the city, from top to bottom, operates in exactly the same way.
Take the police department, for example. By now you may have seen the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPM8QoXclUQ">viral clip</a> of the Police Chief, a woman named Pamela Smith, at a press conference with the mayor the other day. In this footage, she appears perplexed by the term &#8220;chain of command,&#8221; as if she&#8217;s never heard those words before in her entire life. A lot of people mocked that clip, and rightfully so. A police chief who doesn&#8217;t understand the concept of &#8220;chain of command&#8221; is a bit like a cook who&#8217;s never heard of the word &#8220;kitchen.&#8221; It&#8217;s the kind of jaw-dropping moment that doesn&#8217;t seem like it could possibly be real.
As bad as that clip was, the entire answer that Smith gave is even worse. The more context you provide for the clip, the more excruciating it becomes. It is important play the full context. Watch as a reporter tries, for more than a minute, to ask Smith about the extent of the federal government&#8217;s control of the D.C. police department. For all practical purposes, as we know, the White House has assumed command of the D.C. police for the next 30 days, pursuant to their legal authority over the District. But Smith seems to struggle with this concept. She implies, repeatedly, that the D.C. police are going to be working alongside the federal government as partners, without giving any indication of who&#8217;s actually in charge. And then, when the reporter finally asks the question as directly as he can, the police chief gives her now-infamous answer. Watch:
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The way Muriel Bowser swoops in, at precisely that moment, is probably the most revealing part of that clip. She knows how incompetent her police chief is. So she takes over, before things get any worse. Presumably, Bowser didn&#8217;t want the police chief to expound on all of the other words and phrases she doesn&#8217;t understand. After all, when your crime lab isn&#8217;t even accredited and your murder rate is higher than Baghdad&#8217;s, there&#8217;s only so many more hits to morale the city can take.
After this footage aired, a lot of people pointed out that Smith was not hired based on merit. Instead, a couple of years ago, she was hired as the chief &#8220;equity officer&#8221; in the D.C. police department. She was a &#8220;DEI hire&#8221; in every sense. And then, very quickly, she rose to become chief of police. It would be like elevating a DEI consultant to be the CEO of, say Microsoft. It&#8217;s a decision that makes no sense whatsoever.
At the time, when Smith got the job, local media in D.C. wasn&#8217;t interested in asking her about anything substantive. Instead, of course, they highlighted her skin color and gender, as well as her life story. Watch:
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Washington D.C. is a District that, if it became a state, would have the highest murder rate in the entire country. It&#8217;s so dangerous that members of Congress are being carjacked and beaten in their apartments. The security detail for a Supreme Court justice was nearly carjacked, before they shot the attackers. The only relevant question, when you&#8217;re picking a police chief for a place like this, is what exactly the police chief is going to do about the carnage that&#8217;s unfolding every day. Instead, we&#8217;re told she&#8217;s a nice lady. She&#8217;s black. And she had a tough upbringing. Those were her qualifications.
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It&#8217;s not an exaggeration to say that the local media did precisely zero vetting of this woman, nor did anyone in the D.C. government. At most, she was asked superficial questions, with no follow-ups. In a separate interview, for example, the local ABC affiliate asked Smith what she was going to do about all of the murdering that was going on in Washington D.C.
Here&#8217;s how she responded:
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They&#8217;re going to &#8220;come up with a plan,&#8221; according to Smith. The plan will address the murders. And it will address the lack of police officers, too. But you don&#8217;t get to know what the &#8220;plan&#8221; is. That would just be ridiculous. Any questions?
That was good enough for the local ABC affiliate. They asked no follow-ups. But in retrospect, it seems like we all know what the &#8220;plan&#8221; was. As we <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-moves-to-end-d-c-s-third-world-lawlessness-democrats-lose-it?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Matt+Walsh&amp;category=Opinion&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Moves+To+End+D.C.%E2%80%99s+Third-World+Lawlessness.+Democrats+Lose+It.">discussed</a> yesterday, it looks a lot like the plan in D.C. was to fabricate crime statistics. Instead of taking a report for a carjacking or a stabbing or a shooting, officers would classify the incident as &#8220;taking an injured person to the hospital&#8221; or a &#8220;theft&#8221; or a &#8220;felony assault.&#8221; Apparently, according to the police union, when an incident is classified as a &#8220;felony assault,&#8221; it doesn&#8217;t get counted in the D.C. police department&#8217;s daily crime stats, or the FBI&#8217;s uniform crime reporting system. This is a loophole that, we can only assume, is being used by many, many other police departments.
Also, in many cases, D.C. police would simply refuse to respond to crimes, including robberies and assaults. That&#8217;s another way to cook the books, as we all know. And for the DEI lady running the police department, apparently, that&#8217;s good enough.
Again, though, this isn&#8217;t about this one person. Pamela Smith is obviously inept. She has no business holding the job that she does, and people are dying as a result. But really, she&#8217;s a part of a larger problem. And pretty much everyone can see that. In the past year, due to various incidents — prison escapes, terrorist attacks, and wildfires — several prominent government officials in major cities all across the country have been thrust into the national spotlight.
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After a jihadi mowed down more than a dozen people in New Orleans, the elderly female police chief informed the world that she had no idea — no idea whatsoever — that the city had purchased pedestrian barriers that could have prevented the attack. Whoops. That would&#8217;ve been nice to know, she said.
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Then, after the mob of &#8220;festival-goers&#8221; in Cincinnati brutally attacked white people at a music festival, which has long been a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83e5lVccHI">state-sanctioned hotbed</a> of anti-white racism, the female police chief scolded the people who recorded the violence. 
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Earlier in the year, in Los Angeles, as wildfires destroyed entire neighborhoods while firefighters ran out of water, it emerged that the fire chief was a strong independent lesbian who was committed to advancing the LGBTQIIA+ agenda. 
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Meanwhile the deputy fire chief, another fiercely independent girlboss, shot a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/12/us-news/lafds-diversity-chief-sparks-fury-for-defending-dei-by-blaming-the-victim/">video</a> in which she downplayed the idea that female firefighters might not be able to rescue a man trapped in a fire by saying, and I, “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.&#8221; In other words, it&#8217;s the victim&#8217;s fault, as he&#8217;s burning alive, that women can&#8217;t meet the physical standards necessary to be firefighters.
Just from a statistical perspective, there&#8217;s an obvious problem here. We all know that, in the private sector, women aren&#8217;t typically leading major companies. That&#8217;s true in spite of the fact that every Fortune 500 corporation goes out of its way to advance women as part of their DEI agenda. That&#8217;s because women often choose to raise families instead of climbing the corporate ladder. In many cases, they find that they&#8217;re either unwilling or unable to work 80 hours a week, wasting away their entire life in an office building in exchange for a promotion. Also, men and women are different, and men are often just more suited for those kinds of jobs. Women certainly don&#8217;t choose to become police officers or firefighters in large numbers, for obvious reasons. And yet, whenever there&#8217;s a big news story in the past year, we discover that women are somehow running the local police or fire department.
The only way to explain what&#8217;s going on is that these departments are hiring women who are unqualified for the job, solely because they&#8217;re women. That&#8217;s not a partisan point. It&#8217;s basic math. That&#8217;s why these women immediately face-plant on the national stage, the moment they have to respond to any kind of crisis. See, the thing about incompetence is that, very often, it&#8217;s not particularly well-hidden. We&#8217;re not talking about criminal masterminds here. These people only get away with it because, in pretty much every case, no one checks on what they&#8217;re doing. But increasingly, it&#8217;s becoming impossible to ignore what&#8217;s happening. The degree of incompetence is simply too great.
By taking control of Washington D.C. — if only for 30 days or so — the Trump administration has the opportunity to highlight this incompetence even further. The administration can provide a clear contrast between Pamela Smith and Muriel Bowser on the one hand, and competent leadership on the other. They can make sure that every relevant piece of evidence is shipped to a functioning crime lab. They can unseal the D.C. police department&#8217;s fraudulent investigation into January 6, including the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. They can use basic terms like &#8220;chain of command&#8221; without freezing like a deer in the headlights. And in the end, they can expose the extent to which American decline is a choice. We can shut it down, just as quickly as the crime lab was shut down. And before any more people are forced to suffer in the nation&#8217;s capital, or any other major city, that&#8217;s exactly what needs to happen.

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Federal authorities have arrested over 100 people in Washington, D.C., since last Thursday as President Donald Trump sends in the National Guard and federalizes D.C. police to crack down on violent crime in the nation&#8217;s capital.
Of the 103 people arrested by the feds since last week, 43 were detained on Tuesday, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-trumps-new-dc-crime-crackdown-yields-more-than-100-arrests">reported</a>, citing a White House official. Along with hundreds of National Guard troops, agents with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Capitol Police, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives have also descended upon the nation&#8217;s capital to help enforce Trump&#8217;s D.C. &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; operation.
&#8220;President Trump&#8217;s bold leadership is quickly making our nation&#8217;s capital safer,&#8221; White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News. &#8220;In less than one week, over 100 violent criminals have already been arrested and taken off of the streets in Washington, D.C. President Trump is delivering on his campaign promise to clean up this city and restore American Greatness to our cherished capital.&#8221;
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FBI Director Kash Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1955396650005823806">said</a> on Tuesday that the bureau was involved in 10 arrests with law enforcement partners in &#8220;the first big push&#8221; of Trump&#8217;s violent crime crackdown. The FBI arrests included one &#8220;on a search warrant for a prior murder charge,&#8221; multiple arrests for unlawful possession of firearms, multiple arrests of suspects with outstanding warrants for DUI, and an arrest for violating a restraining order, according to Patel.
&#8220;These are just a few examples — we are just getting started. Federal partners joined local police and arrested 23 in total. When you let good cops be cops they can clean up our streets and do it fast,&#8221; the FBI director added. &#8220;More to come. Your nation&#8217;s Capital WILL be safe again.&#8221;
Five armored personnel carriers were seen parked near the Washington Monument on Tuesday, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-news-dc-police-putin-08-12-25#cme99hgif00053b6s99b3sz5u">reported</a>. A White House official said that federal agents and the Metropolitan Police Department &#8220;will continue focusing on high traffic areas and other known hotspots.&#8221;
Just hours after Trump announced the crackdown on violent crime, a 33-year-old man was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crime-ridden-d-c-records-100th-homicide-of-the-year-hours-after-trump-federalizes-police?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Crime-Ridden+D.C.+Records+100th+Homicide+Of+The+Year+Hours+After+Trump+Federalizes+Police">shot and killed</a> in D.C.&#8217;s Logan Circle, which is just one mile from the White House and is described as one of D.C.&#8217;s more popular neighborhoods. The fatal shooting marked D.C.&#8217;s 100th homicide of 2025.
White House Press Secretary <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1955320143090708745">said</a> during a press briefing on Tuesday that around 850 officers and agents &#8220;were surged across the city&#8221; on Monday night, and made 23 arrests, which included arrests on homicide, firearms, and drug charges. Trump announced that he was federalizing D.C. police and deploying the National Guard on Monday morning, but federal agents were already out on the D.C. streets making arrests late last week.
The president is using section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to declare an emergency and take control of the Metropolitan Police Department for up to 30 days. If Trump wants to extend his control of D.C. police beyond 30 days, Congress would need to step in and pass a joint resolution that authorizes an extension, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-congress-holds-the-key-to-extending-trumps-d-c-police-takeover?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Why+Congress+Holds+The+Key+To+Extending+Trump%E2%80%99s+D.C.+Police+Takeover">reported</a>. The GOP-controlled House and Senate would likely grant Trump&#8217;s request to maintain control over the capital&#8217;s law enforcement.

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