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President Trump announced a temporary federal takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department and deployed National Guard troops, citing concerns about crime. Local officials criticized the move, while the police union expressed support. The action is expected to last 30 days.

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Live Updates: Trump Escalates Efforts to Take Control of Washington Police
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Trump Takes Control of DC Police Amidst Crime Concerns
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President Trump announced a temporary federal takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department and deployed National Guard troops, citing concerns about crime. Local officials criticized the move, while the police union expressed support. The action is expected to last 30 days.
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Brian Schwalb, the attorney general of D.C., called them \u201cunprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful,\u201d and said his office \u201cwill do what\u2019s necessary to protect the rights and safety of District residents.\u201dMr. Trump also threatened to expand his efforts to other cities, including Chicago, if they did not deal with crime rates he claimed were \u201cout of control.\u201d But Mr. Trump\u2019s authority to intervene elsewhere would be more limited: His announcement on Monday invoked a section of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act that grants him the power to temporarily seize control of the city\u2019s police department.Here\u2019s what else to know:D.C. deployment: Unlike a state\u2019s governor, the District of Columbia does not have control over its National Guard, giving the president broad leeway to deploy those troops. The Trump administration also plans to temporarily reassign 120 F.B.I. agents in Washington to nighttime patrol duties as part of the crackdown, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more \u203aDystopian claims: Mr. Trump\u2019s most recent threats to take control of Washington came after a prominent member of the Department of Government Efficiency, his federal cost-cutting initiative, reported being beaten in an attempted carjacking. But on Monday he sought to lay out an even darker version of the city, overrun by violent crime and anarchy, that many who live in it are unlikely to recognize.Familiar targets: In decrying crime as out of control in cities across the country, he listed familiar targets like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago but did not mention cities in Republican-led states with the highest murder rates: Memphis, St. Louis or New Orleans. He also ignored the most violent episode in Washington\u2019s recent history: the Jan. 6, 2021, riot as the Capitol, where his supporters sought to stop the certification of the 2020 election he lost. Mr. Trump pardoned hundreds of rioters, many of whom had already been convicted of crimes and were serving sentences before being immediately released in January.Other deployments: This summer, Mr. Trump deployed nearly 5,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles with orders to help quell protests that had erupted over immigration raids and to protect the federal agents conducting them. All but about 250 of those National Guard troops have since been withdrawn. And in his first term, Mr. Trump called up National Guard soldiers and federal law enforcement personnel to forcibly clear peaceful protests during the Black Lives Matter protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.Show moreAug. 11, 2025, 1:57 p.m. ET12 minutes agoAnnie KarniReporting from WashingtonImagePresident Trump declared a public safety emergency in Washington and invoked a section of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesThe crime rate in the nation\u2019s capital has been falling in spite of President Trump\u2019s actions in his second term, said Ankit Jain, a shadow senator for the District of Columbia, soon after the president announced a temporary takeover of policing in the city.\u201cWe have a historic judicial vacancy crisis in D.C.,\u201d said Mr. Jain, who serves as one of the District\u2019s elected advocates before the U.S. Senate. He noted that the city is down two judges out of nine on its high court, the D.C. court of appeals. \u201cWhat happens when you don\u2019t have enough judges? Trials get delayed, crime goes up,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy has the president not made this a priority of nominating judges?\u201dMr. Jain said the vacancy crisis in the U.S. attorney\u2019s office, which prosecutes all adult crimes, also posed a problem for the city. Mr. Trump recently installed an ally, the former Fox News host Jeannine Pirro, as the U.S. attorney for Washington after he was forced his pull his first choice for the job.\u201cPirro\u2019s predecessor fired attorneys who prosecuted violent insurrectionists from Jan. 6,\u201d Mr. Jain said, referring to another Trump appointee, Ed Martin. \u201cNow we\u2019re facing a vacancy crisis in her office, too.\u201dMr. Jain said Mr. Trump\u2019s his efforts to exert federal authority over the nation\u2019s capital did not appear to offer any long term solutions to crime. \u201cAnd I\u2019m incredibly concerned about what he is going to use the police force to do to the people of D.C.,\u201d he added.The takeover of the city police department was expected to last 30 days. That means that what Mr. Trump announced on Monday was essentially a show of force that will expire on Sept. 10.Mr. Jain is one of two shadow senators from the District of Columbia who serve as its elected advocates before the body. They hold no voting power but lobby the Senate in favor of D.C. statehood, to prevent congressional interference in its affairs, and pass laws that protect D.C.\u2019s interests.Mr. Jain said there was only one real way for Washington to protect itself.\u201cWe need D.C. statehood to stop this problem,\u201d he said.Show more\n \n \n4,000\n3,000\n2,000\n1,000\n2011\n\u201913\n\u201915\n\u201917\n\u201919\n\u201921\n\u201923\n\u201925\n4,000\n3,000\n2,000\n1,000\n2011\n2013\n2015\n2017\n2019\n2021\n2023\n2025\nAug. 11, 2025, 1:39 p.m. ET30 minutes agoMichael GoldCongressional correspondentUnder the part of the Home Rule Act that Trump cited in his announcement, the president must send a message to the top lawmakers on the committees that oversee D.C. if he plans to take control of the police for more than 48 hours. A spokeswoman for Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said that he had not yet received such a letter, which must include both an explanation for the president\u2019s action and the duration that is expected to last.Aug. 11, 2025, 1:37 p.m. ET31 minutes agoCampbell RobertsonReporting from WashingtonThe police union in D.C., which represents more than 3,000 officers, said in a statement that it supported the president\u2019s decision to take over the city\u2019s police force, insisting that it was needed to address \u201cviolent crime surges, historic officer shortages, and eroded morale.\u201d But, the statement went on, the takeover \u201cmust be a temporary measure, with the ultimate goal of empowering a fully staffed and supported\u201d police department.Aug. 11, 2025, 1:22 p.m. ET46 minutes agoDarren SandsReporting from WashingtonImageThe Capitol in Washington.Credit...Eric Lee for The New York TimesLike several District of Columbia residents interviewed Monday morning, Sarah Struble, 37, who lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, said she feels relatively safe, though the high-profile incidents of violence like those mentioned by President Trump during his news conference can be unnerving.Crime is \u201cnot something that is impacting me personally in my life every day,\u201d said Ms. Struble.She said she likes that law enforcement officers don\u2019t walk streets with military-style firearms like in some foreign countries, and she said she doesn\u2019t support the president\u2019s moves to take over Washington\u2019s police and deploy the National Guard.\u201cI\u2019m not a particularly pro-police, pro-law enforcement kind of person,\u201d she said. \u201cI would much rather resources go towards, you know, community support and services and things like that, things that our taxes support and things run by the community rather than bringing in the National Guard.\u201dShanta Rigsby, 43, said crime has remained steady for the past five years in the Navy Yard neighborhood where she lives, with a noticeable rise after the pandemic. She said Mr. Trump should focus on addressing the root causes of crime before sending in the National Guard. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that the new administration has to take this reactionary approach,\u201d said Ms. Rigsby, \u201cinstead of local government really focusing on bringing down crime and making residents feel safe.\u201dJerry Stenquist, 42, a federal employee who works in Navy Yard, said that some crime is inevitable with big events like baseball games for the Washington Nationals at the stadium in the neighborhood.\u201cIt\u2019s a nice area,\u201d Mr. Stenquist said of the Navy Yard, \u201cbut I think anytime you have a broad range of the public that\u2019s going to show up at the stadium, you\u2019re going to have some crime.\u201dShow moreAug. 11, 2025, 12:40 p.m. ET1 hour agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseA White House official confirms that the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department is intended to last for 30 days.Aug. 11, 2025, 12:18 p.m. ET2 hours agoCampbell RobertsonReporting from WashingtonIn a statement, Brian Schwalb, the elected attorney general of the District of Columbia, called the administration\u2019s actions to take control of policing the city \u201cunprecedented, unnecessary and unlawful.\u201d He added, \u201cWe are considering all of our options and will do what\u2019s necessary to protect the rights and safety of District residents.\u201dAug. 11, 2025, 12:16 p.m. ET2 hours agoBrent McDonaldOutside the White House, a group called Free D.C. is holding a rally to protest President Trump\u2019s plans to take federal control of the police department.VideoCreditCredit...Brent McDonald\/The New York TimesAug. 11, 2025, 11:57 a.m. ET2 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseThe president ends his news conference, ignoring shouted questions about the Epstein case and which Washington neighborhoods might see the National Guard on their streets.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:48 a.m. ET2 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseOver one hour in, and this news conference has meandered from the federal takeover of Washington police to Trump\u2019s meeting this week with President Vladimir Putin of Russia; the future of the Russia-Ukraine war; tariffs against China; the proposed White House ballroom; and talk about the president\u2019s experience in real estate. All the while, members of the president\u2019s cabinet continue standing behind him.Trump, perhaps acknowledging their unease, just tried to redirect reporters back to questions about Washington. But after a single question, Trump is now talking about his meeting with Putin again. ImageCredit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesAug. 11, 2025, 11:34 a.m. ET3 hours agoMichael GoldCongressional correspondentRepresentative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House committee that has jurisdiction over affairs in Washington, D.C., praised the president\u2019s announcement. \u201cPresident Trump is rightly using executive power to take bold and necessary action to crack down on crime and restore law and order in Washington, D.C.,\u201d he said in a statement. Aug. 11, 2025, 11:32 a.m. ET3 hours agoShawn McCreeshWhite House reporterPresident Trump\u2019s framing here is that Washington will be a kind of guinea pig; he\u2019s using it as a test lab to prove that Republicans can clean up and run cities better than Democrats, and that the changes to come will set an example for blue cities across America.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:31 a.m. ET3 hours agoZolan Kanno-YoungsWhite House reporterAs President Trump paints a hellish portrait of the District of Columbia, it\u2019s worth remembering that the president actually does not get out of the White House and into the city much. In his first term, Trump spent a lot of time at the Trump International Hotel in the city, but with that hotel now closed, Trump usually stays in the White House.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:27 a.m. ET3 hours agoShawn McCreeshWhite House reporter\u201cIf our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty,\u201d President Trump says dramatically, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:23 a.m. ET3 hours agoCampbell RobertsonReporting from WashingtonWashington\u2019s criminal justice system is already under substantial federal control. While the prosecutions of juveniles are handled by the locally elected attorney general, the prosecutions of adults accused of serious crimes are handled by the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:19 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseJeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., says she wants to \u201cchange the law\u201d to bring charges against criminal defendants in their early teens. The president praised her performance in front of the cameras as she stepped away from the lectern.ImageCredit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesAug. 11, 2025, 11:17 a.m. ET3 hours agoZolan Kanno-YoungsWhite House reporterPresident Trump says his administration has begun to remove homeless people from encampments in parks in Washington. The president has not outlined where he plans on moving those people. The city has struggled in recent years with a shelter system pushed to capacity.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:16 a.m. ET3 hours agoShawn McCreeshWhite House reporterPresident Trump\u2019s preference for hiring people he sees on Fox News has never seemed starker than right now, as he stands between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., two former talking heads.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:12 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseDuring this news conference, President Trump has said more about the ballroom he wants to build in the White House than about how homeless people will be supported if they are moved out of Washington.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:09 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HousePresident Trump says 800 National Guard troops will be stationed in Washington and says he will add more if necessary.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:06 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseAttorney General Pam Bondi takes the lectern and talks about the families who visit the capital, taking advantage of the free museums, the National Zoo, and other attractions. The tourist activity she is touting is in conflict with the dystopian image she and others are painting of the city.Aug. 11, 2025, 11:02 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth says members of the Washington, D.C., National Guard will be \u201cflowing\u201d into the capital over the coming week. He did not say how many.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:59 a.m. ET3 hours agoZolan Kanno-YoungsWhite House reporterPresident Trump says he is prepared to send the military into Washington \u201cif needed.\u201dAug. 11, 2025, 10:59 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HousePresident Trump formally declares a public safety emergency in Washington, D.C. Pam Bondi, the attorney general, will be overseeing the federal takeover of the city\u2019s police forces. This move is in line with Trump\u2019s tendency to assign his cabinet members multiple jobs.ImageCredit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesAug. 11, 2025, 10:57 a.m. ET3 hours agoShawn McCreeshWhite House reporter\u201cI\u2019m going to Russia on Friday,\u201d President Trump says at the news conference. He\u2019s actually going to Alaska to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:55 a.m. ET3 hours agoShawn McCreeshWhite House reporterThis news conference has as much to do with politics as it does the real world issue of crime and law enforcement. President Trump is using it to talk about transgender athletes and his policies at the southern border, trying to somehow connect it all back to what he wants to do with the Distric of Columbia police department.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:52 a.m. ET3 hours agoChris CameronReporting from WashingtonAs President Trump decries out-of-control crime in cities, he lists a number of familiar targets: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. He does not mention cities in red states with the highest murder rates: Memphis, St. Louis or New Orleans. It\u2019s also interesting to note Trump\u2019s language here as he\u2019s describing some residents of American cities as \u201ccaravans of mass youth.\u201d He is substituting one word from his usual attacks against \u201ccaravans of mass migrants.\u201dImageCredit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesAug. 11, 2025, 10:49 a.m. ET3 hours agoCampbell RobertsonReporting from WashingtonPresident Trump was just talking about a carjacking incident. While the number of carjackings in the District of Columbia did spike in 2023, they have declined significantly over the past 18 months. The number of murders is down 34 percent from the first seven months of 2023.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:48 a.m. ET3 hours agoCampbell RobertsonReporting from WashingtonUnder the Home Rule Act the president\u2019s ability to take over the District\u2019s police expires \u201cupon the end of such emergency,\u201d 30 days following the date the takeover begins, or when Congress passes a law ending such a takeover, whichever happens first.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:47 a.m. ET3 hours agoZolan Kanno-YoungsWhite House reporterTrump says the murder rate in Washington is higher than some of the worst places in the world. Gun violence and juvenile crime has indeed been a persistent problem in Washington, D.C. But despite Trump\u2019s claims, crime overall is on the decline in the nation\u2019s capital. In 2024, violent crime in the city hit a 30-year low, according to federal data. Violent crime is down another 26 percent this year, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Aug. 11, 2025, 10:46 a.m. ET3 hours agoShawn McCreeshWhite House reporterThere is, of course, crime in Washington, but President Trump is describing a Mad Max-like hellscape version of the city that many people who live here are unlikely to recognize. \u201cOur capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people,\u201d he said.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:45 a.m. ET3 hours agoChris CameronReporting from WashingtonPresident Trump has repeatedly threatened a federal takeover of Washington, and his moves to bring the city\u2019s police force under federal control and deploy the National Guard appear to be firm steps in that direction.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:42 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseIt\u2019s hard to see the visual aids that the White House has put up on the screens behind the president, because there are so many cabinet members standing near him.ImageCredit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesAug. 11, 2025, 10:42 a.m. ET3 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseTrump says the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington will be placed under federal control. He is referring to a section of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act that grants him the authority to take over the police department when there are \u201cspecial conditions of an emergency nature.\u201dVideoBack0:00\/0:35-0:00transcriptI\u2019m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation\u2019s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor \u2014 and worse. This is \u201cLiberation Day\u201d in D.C., and we\u2019re going to take our capital back. We\u2019re taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States. I\u2019m officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. Do you know what that is? And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:33 a.m. ET4 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseThe president\u2019s news conference is running a half hour behind schedule.Aug. 11, 2025, 10:05 a.m. ET4 hours agoKatie RogersReporting from the White HouseGreetings from the White House briefing room, where President Trump is scheduled to begin speaking shortly. White House aides have distributed photos of a Truth Social post, in which the president wrote that Washington, D.C., would be \u201cLIBERATED today!\u201d The handout also includes photos of people it says were arrested over the weekend and accused of crimes ranging from drunk driving to possession of narcotics.Aug. 11, 2025, 8:05 a.m. ETAug. 11, 2025Eric SchmittImageNational Guard troops were deployed in Los Angeles over the summer.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesThe U.S. military is preparing to activate National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., as part of President Trump\u2019s crackdown on street crime in the city, a Defense Department official said on Monday.Mr. Trump had not approved any official deployment orders as of early Monday. But he is expected to announce at a news conference at the White House that up to several hundred District of Columbia National Guardsmen will be sent to support law enforcement officers in the capital, the Defense Department official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. No other details were available early Monday.In a Truth Social post Monday morning, Mr. Trump said: \u201cI will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN!\u201d Though crime rates in Washington, D.C., have been falling, Mr. Trump has claimed that they are \u201ctotally out of control\u201d and has threatened a federal takeover.The National Guard troops, whose possible activation was previously reported by Reuters, would probably not have arrest authorities. Instead, they would support law enforcement officials or free them up to carry out patrol duties, the Defense Department official said.The Trump administration also plans to temporarily reassign 120 F.B.I. agents in Washington to nighttime patrol duties as part of Mr. Trump\u2019s crackdown, according to people familiar with the matter. Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the F.B.I.\u2019s Washington field office, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe details of an effort that were not meant to be public.The troop activation in Washington comes after the deployment this summer of nearly 5,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles with orders to help quell protests that had erupted over immigration raids and to protect the federal agents conducting them. All but about 250 of those National Guard troops have since been withdrawn.In his first term, Mr. Trump called up National Guard soldiers and federal law enforcement personnel to forcibly clear peaceful protests during the Black Lives Matter protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.Unlike a state\u2019s governor, the District of Columbia does not have control over its National Guard, giving the president broad leeway to deploy those troops.Devlin Barrett contributed reporting.Show moreAug. 10, 2025, 8:03 p.m. ETAug. 10, 2025Devlin BarrettImageFederal Park Police performed a traffic stop in Washington on Friday. President Trump has ordered federal law enforcement to help fight crime in the capital.Credit...Andrew Leyden\/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration plans to temporarily reassign 120 F.B.I. agents in Washington to nighttime patrol duties as part of President Trump\u2019s crackdown on the city\u2019s street crime, according to people familiar with the matter.Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the F.B.I.\u2019s Washington field office, but it was not immediately clear if agency leaders would need to pull additional personnel from nearby cities, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe details of an effort that were not meant to be public.In a statement, an F.B.I. spokeswoman said agents were \u201cparticipating in the increased federal law enforcement presence in Washington,\u201d and referred additional questions to the White House.The temporary reassignments were first reported by The Washington Post.Mr. Trump has said that crime in Washington is spiraling out of control. While statistics show that violent crime in the city hit a 30-year low last year and is down another 26 percent so far this year, youth crime has been a persistent problem for city officials.Mr. Trump stepped up threats to put Washington under federal control last week after a prominent member of the Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted during an attempted carjacking. He has planned an announcement for Monday morning to unveil his plan to fight crime in the city. The administration had previously said that additional federal agents would be used to combat crime in Washington.This is not the first time the Trump administration has decided to reallocate F.B.I. personnel to follow the president\u2019s priorities. In recent months, roughly 900 F.B.I. agents around the country have been given temporary assignments to help with immigration enforcement.It can be challenging for F.B.I. agents to make meaningful contributions to such assignments, given that the bureau\u2019s agents are investigators not trained in patrol-focused policing. Many others are inexperienced in handling immigration cases. F.B.I. agents on such assignments are often used to provide additional security on the street, while other law enforcement officers do their jobs.Show more",
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PinnedUpdatedΒ Aug. 11, 2025, 1:07 p.m. ET1 hour agoCampbell RobertsonKatie Rogers and Chris CameronReporting from WashingtonPresident Trump significantly escalated his efforts to exert federal authority over the nation’s capital on Monday, saying that he was temporarily taking control of the city’s police department and deploying 800 National Guard troops to fight crime there.At a White House news conference, the president painted a dystopian picture of Washington β€” including β€œbloodthirsty criminals” and β€œroving mobs of wild youth” β€” that stood in sharp contrast to official figures showing violent crime in the city is at a 30-year low.Mr. Trump said Attorney General Pam Bondi would oversee the federal takeover of the capital’s Metropolitan Police Department and, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at his side, added that he was prepared to send the military into Washington β€œif needed.” A White House official said the takeover was intended to last for 30 days.Local officials immediately...

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