Trump’s take over of D.C. police is a grab for power
Trump’s Takeover of D.C. Police: Because Nothing Says ‘Emergency’ Like a 30-Year Crime Low When President Donald Trump decided to seize control of the Metropolitan Police Department and flood Washington’s streets with National Guard troops, he pitched it as a heroic rescue from rampant “lawlessness”. It’s a curious sort of lawlessness, though—the kind where violent crime in 2024 dropped 35% to its lowest point in more than three decades, and homicides fell 26%. But hey, why let numbers get in the way of a good panic? The Legal Hocus Pocus Trump’s magic trick rests on Section 740 of the D.C….