A Metropolitan police vehicle remains parked on Georgia Ave and Princeton Pl NW after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an ...

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

President Trump directed federal law enforcement agencies to increase their presence in Washington DC last week.

Trump has long focused on crime and cleanliness in DC and other cities, sparring periodically with Democratic mayors during ...

President Donald Trump has said he will deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington DC and is taking control of ...

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is voicing concerns about the president's potential use of the National Guard to patrol the city's streets. President Donald Trump announced Monday that he’s taki ...

But Trump exaggerated or misstated many of the facts surrounding public safety in Washington, where the crime rate has fallen ...

Though the Trump administration claims violence in the capital is getting worse, police statistics show violent crime has ...

One Ward 8 community leader called President Trump’s move to federalize DC police and deploy the National Guard a complicated ...

While Republicans claim violent crime is up in the nation’s capitol city, statistics from the Metro Police Department and the ...

The takeover is only expected to last 30 days, and troops who are deployed to the area are not expected to openly carry weapons.

While reporting on President Trump’s federal efforts to combat crime in Washington, D.C., CNN’s Dana Bash told viewers the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was the city's “most violent moment in recent history.” ...