Mehdi Hasan believes Trump has a legal right to enforce a federal crackdown on crime in D.C., but does not truly care about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington, D.C. council chair Phil Mendelson, joins ABC News' Linsey Davis to discuss President Trump's plans to combat what ...

If the president goes ahead with the idea, he is expected to announce it at a news conference scheduled for Monday morning.

"Instead of commandeering the local police and deploying the military to the City’s streets, Donald Trump should give D.C.

The mother of a University of Massachusetts student who was killed in Washington, D.C. earlier this year was overcome with emotion after<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...