Trump Orders National Guard Into Washington, Takes Over D.C. Police

Triggered much

Liberal hell holes like New York, Chicago, DC etc... need to be made safe for citizens to ride the subways,walk their neighborhoods safely. In addition to the mess of feces, urine, needles etc.... need to be cleaned up. If you're against this then TDS is truly eating up your brain.

 

Hopefully they can find the missing 3 minutes from the Epstein suicide tape.

 

If Washington DC were a state, it would have the highest violent crime rate BY FAR in the country.

Trump is trying to fix a severe problem... and one that tends to follow Democrats everywhere they hold power...


GOOD DAY

 

It’s posts like this that lead me to believe you must be a partisan liberal who is posing as maybe the most ignorant brain dead version of a maga republican to reinforce the stereotype as much as possible.

I really hope that’s the case and you aren’t this ignorant.

 

The only way we can stop this Epstein bullshit is to create a bigger distraction.

 

Thank god 5 didn’t happen. It’s not like Trump replaced the military leadership and installed loyalists…

 

If you are going to troll at least be intelligent about it. I mean put in some real effort and brain power behind it. You don’t want people to think you really are that stupid

 

My wife is from Silver Spring. We take the metro into town sometimes when we visit her parents. I've never felt concerned.

My MAGA mother went to the DMV for my wife’s baby shower last year. She loved the area and kept saying “it’s so pretty there, I guess you can't believe everything on the news” after her visit.

 

NY Post editorial:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/opini...sible-and-a-win-for-the-people-of-washington/

Trump’s takeover of DC policing is entirely sensible and a win for the people of Washington
By Post Editorial Board
Published Aug. 11, 2025, 7:50 p.m. ET

Washington, DC’s political class may scream in fury at Team Trump’s takeover of policing, but we suspect most district residents will be relieved: Regular people put public safety first.

The city’s politicians have failed to do that, and the feds have a duty to act when the nation’s capital is unsafe.

Even Democrats have been willing to stomp on DC’s demands for “home rule” when it comes to fighting crime: By a vote of 81-14 in 2023, for example, the Dem-run Senate joined with the GOP-run House to override the City Council’s bid to reduce maximum penalties for violent crime, including carjackings — and President Joe Biden signed the measure into law.

Carjackings, for the record, are still triple the 2018 level, part of a grim wave of youth crime — yet city leaders have refused to get serious about stopping the violence.

Nor did President Donald Trump rush to do this: He warned Mayor Muriel Bowser last year that action was on the table; she’s had six months to turn things around — but several high-profile recent crimes, including last month’s shooting death of 3-year-old Honesty Cheadle, showed she needs help.

Indeed, as Trump noted, the US capital has more murders per capita than notorious Mexico City and Bogotá, Colombia. The homicide rate is six times New York City’s.

To drive crime down, this intervention will bring in new resources, including hundreds of National Guard and broader deployment of the federal Park Police.

Note, too: The feds share blame for DC’s high crime: The US Attorney for the District of Columbia is responsible for all felony prosecutions in the city — but Biden appointees to the job refused to prosecute over half of local crimes.

We hope neither the City Council nor Democrats (in Congress or neighboring Maryland and Virginia) try to sabotage this intervention. Everyone but the bad guys, and DC’s citizens most of all, is a winner if it succeeds.

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Washington Post editorial:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/11/trump-dc-police-takeover-crime/

Opinion
Editorial Board
Fighting crime in D.C. cannot end with Trump’s show of force
The president’s takeover of the D.C. police will be temporary. Longer-term solutions will be needed.
August 11, 2025 at 7:26 p.m. EDT

President Donald Trump is putting on quite the show to project strength on crime after the foiled carjacking of a staffer in his administration. On Monday, he took control of the D.C. police and deployed the National Guard.

It’s one thing to get tough, but it’s also essential to enact sustainable fixes. Crime is a serious problem, and fighting it requires a serious commitment — from this administration, as well as federal lawmakers, the mayor, the D.C. Council, prosecutors and local judges.

Trump is correct that crime remains a serious issue in the city (and nationally). Violent crime has fallen over the past few years, as city officials note, but many residents still do not feel safe. Carjackings, for instance, have dropped after a surge in 2023, but they remain above pre-pandemic levels. High-profile incidents of violence underscore the problem, which local leaders cannot wave away.

Nevertheless, Trump’s efforts to put more law enforcement and armed troops on the streets of D.C. will probably have limited value. A stepped-up security presence might deter crime and keep some troublemakers from going out after dark for the rest of the summer, but Trump will only control the police department for 30 days unless he finds a way to get both chambers of Congress to authorize an extension.

In the United States, unlike in many European countries, there have historically been clear distinctions between the police and the military. Under the 1973 law that gave D.C. home rule, the president has broad legal authority to take over the D.C. police during an emergency. Whether a genuine emergency exists is up for debate, and federalizing a local police department is not without risk. National Guard troops are not trained to police urban settings. Their prolonged presence could agitate residents.

What D.C. needs is more permanent police officers. In 2023, then-Police Chief Robert J. Contee III warned that the city’s force had fallen to a half-century low of about 3,350 officers, forcing the city to spend millions of dollars on overtime. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and the D.C. Council have already dedicated millions in their recent budget to increase staffing, as part of a goal to reach 4,000 officers by 2031. Congress could restore the city’s budget, which it cut while averting a shutdown earlier this year.

D.C. can help itself by holding more juvenile offenders accountable. The city passed a law last year called Secure DC that made it easier to prosecute certain crimes, such as illegal gun possession and carjackings, and to detain dangerous defendants, including juveniles, while they await trial. This marked a political shift for the city, where left-wing lawmakers and the elected D.C. attorney general, Brian Schwalb, previously championed relative leniency for teens who committed serious crimes.

If the D.C. attorney general’s office applies justice consistently, young people can expect real consequences when they hurt others. In 2024, 73 percent of juvenile cases were prosecuted — up from less than half in 2019. That’s an improvement, but the number could be higher.

The city also has trouble with truancy, which is closely intertwined with youth crime. Strides have been made to keep students in school. The overall number of chronically absent kids reached pre-pandemic levels last year. Still, more than half of D.C. high-schoolers continued to miss 10 percent of the academic year.

These are not the types of problems that can be easily tackled from the Oval Office or by swarming the city’s streets with Humvees. They need sustained attention. D.C. residents want their local police to be properly equipped and staffed so that the community can be safe without military intervention. However unpopular he might be in the deep-blue District, Trump is trying to deliver on the law-and-order message of his presidential campaign. He might not delve into the weeds of criminal justice, but lawmakers in the city and on Capitol Hill have an opportunity to enact policies that will help.


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Wall Street Journal editorial:

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-...7?st=AUUGMC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Donald Trump, D.C. Police Commissioner
Cleaning up the city is a worthy task, and local control is dysfunctional.
By The Editorial Board
Aug. 11, 2025 5:38 pm ET

President Trump took federal control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department on Monday, pledging to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor—and worse.” He’s also calling up 800 troops from the D.C. National Guard to assist. Now Washingtonians and visitors can judge Police Commissioner Trump by the results he gets.

The Constitution establishes the District of Columbia as a federal enclave, so there’s no abuse of power in Congress and the President exercising authority over it. (Mr. Trump’s threats to intervene in the policing of Chicago, say, are a different matter.) These days D.C. largely governs itself, using delegated powers, but the law preserves Presidential control of the police during emergencies, generally up to 30 days unless Congress approves.

“Crime is out of control,” says Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration. “The city government’s failure to maintain public order and safety has had a dire impact on the Federal Government’s ability to operate efficiently to address the Nation’s broader interests.” In a news conference at the White House, the President mentioned the recent assault of a former DOGE staffer, Edward Coristine. He said murders hit a high in 2023, when 274 were killed.

Violent crime has since fallen, as the press quickly pointed out, and fair enough. Nobody can accuse Mr. Trump of understatement, given his vision of D.C. as painted by Hieronymus Bosch. “Our capital city,” he said, “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people.” Yet Mr. Trump’s opponents are in the awkward position of arguing it’s no emergency if last year a mere 187 people were murdered and only 1,026 were assaulted with a dangerous weapon.

By getting involved in D.C. governance, Mr. Trump is setting a precedent, and the next Democratic President could follow it, with other priorities. Yet Republicans might still consider that an improvement on the status quo. At least the White House is sensitive to national opinion, which is larger than the progressive voter base that elects the D.C. City Council.

Recall that President Biden signed a Congressional resolution in 2023, amid that year’s murder surge, to overturn the D.C. City Council’s revisions to its criminal code, which included a reduction in the maximum penalties for carjacking and illegal gun possession. The vote in Congress included dozens of Democratic ayes. One was Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig, who had been assaulted in an elevator at her D.C. apartment building. Another was Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, who later that year was carjacked at gunpoint.

On the whole, local control of D.C. looks like a failure. The city has enshrined noncitizen voting in local elections and “sanctuary” policies to thwart federal immigration enforcement. Why should the President and Congress stand for this in America’s seat of government?

Mr. Trump loves to cast himself as a man of action, and now he’s top cop. If he really helps to clean up D.C., clearing out homeless camps and making public spaces safer for residents and tourists, he’ll deserve thanks.

Appeared in the August 12, 2025, print edition as 'Donald Trump, D.C. Police Commissioner'.



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His personal SS squad. How nazi of him

 

DC does have an underpolicing problem. Particularly with wayward youth.

That being said, I don't want the national guard deployed, especially if Trump is the one doing the deploying.

 

Very clever. By the time you yell ‘It’s the DCD…Q…R…F!’, they’ve black bagged you and you’re on the way to El Salvador.

 

Somebody please explain to me why Trump had no power to call out the DC National Guard on January 6 to quell the insurrection, but can do so now to fight an imaginary crime wave. According to the excuses offered back then, the Speaker of the House should have called out the Guard, but I don't see Mike Johnson anywhere in this current process.

 

Picture the military going after wayward youth for graffiti. You're likely going to see a repeat of what the National Guard did in L.A. Idle, bored, costing hundreds of millions practically watching birds fly by.

 

Crime is actually down in all those cities. So what is going to happen when untrained soldiers kills an unarmed someone acting as police?

 

He's one slow son a of b****, gotta put on your kid gloves dealing with this type of cult dedication.

 

Crime Statistic . . .. . can be manipulated?
Who would have thunk it . . . .. .

You crime stats are meaningless

Rocket River
" . . . but black on black crime. . . . . "

 

Are you thinking they are understated? Very few would believe that black crime is not high. Keeping it real here -- people see what they see.