President Donald Trump announced plans last month to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and deploy National Guard troops across the District of Columbia. He vowed to combat crime and “restore the beauty” of Washington.
Trump told reporters that the district’s homicide rate topped that of some of the world’s most dangerous cities, while car thefts had doubled and carjackings had more than tripled over the past five years.
The outrage from the Left was swift and fierce. For days, Democrats flooded the airwaves, parroting a recent report claiming that violent crime in Washington dropped to a 30-year low. New York Times correspondent Peter Baker insisted that Trump was “citing a nonexistent crime crisis.”
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