We look at crime in the nation’s capital and President Trump’s legal authority to intervene.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was putting Washington D.C.'s police department under federal control and ordering the National...

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was putting Washington D.C.'s police department under federal control and ordering the National...

The president has railed against crime in urban, largely liberal cities for decades, but Monday’s announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.

In a letter to the House Oversight Committee, President Trump signaled his intent to temporarily take control of the Washington, D.C., police department and deploy 800 National…

Federal law gives presidents the power to take over Washington’s police force after declaring an emergency, but Donald Trump is the first president to do so.

“It’s a natural instinct as a real estate person,” he said in announcing his federal takeover of the capital’s police, despite falling crime.

Plus, a quiet crisis for America’s jurors.

We look at crime in the nation’s capital and President Trump’s legal authority to intervene.

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President Trump is the first president to use a declared emergency to wrest control of Washington, D.C.’s police force.

The Trump administration has taken steps that have hobbled Washington’s efforts to reduce crime, such as gutting its U.S. attorney’s office and enacting budget cuts of more than…

In the nation’s capital, federal agents have operated a sobriety checkpoint, made gun and drug busts and carried out other day-to-day police work. Some residents are uneasy.