President Trump said he would take over Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploy National Guard troops to fight crime and car thefts.

The showdown in Washington is the latest attempt by Trump to test the boundaries of his legal authority to carry out his tough-on-crime agenda, relying on obscure statutes and a supposed state of emergency to speed up the mass deportation of people in the United States illegally.

The ACLU-D.C. is raising concerns over two controversial moves in Washington, D.C. - a new order from the Metropolitan Police Department to cooperate with ICE and President Trump's takeover of the city's police force - which they argue threaten community safety and democratic governance.

Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2013 News Conference.

Washington is seeking an emergency restraining order to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department.

Following earlier orders from President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directing Drug Enforcement Administrator Terry Cole to assume control of MPD, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the Trump administration.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a directive late on Thursday naming Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole as the "emergency police commissioner" of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department.

A former MPD sergeant claims that top officials sought to ‘downgrade crimes in order to make crime look like it was less than it was.’