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

Donald Trump is moving to place D.C.’s police under federal control and deploy hundreds of National Guard troops, citing a crime wave his own Justice Department says doesn’t exist. MSNBC legal ...

I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” said Muriel Bowser, who refrained from attacking ...

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

For years, prominent voices on the right argued that Democrats were enacting a police state. They labeled everything—a report ...

US President Donald Trump has placed Washington D.C.’s police under federal control and deployed the National Guard to tackle ...

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 ...

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 ...

US President Donald Trump said Monday he will deploy military and federal law enforcement in Washington as he seeks to curb violent crime in the nation's capital.

In a first since DC's 1973 Home Rule Act, Trump invokes emergency powers to federalise policing and send troops into the ...