Posted on 08/14/2025 10:16:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump used a template for his takeover of DC policing that’s worked for him before: Move quickly, establish a large and visible security presence — then wait for Democrats to splinter over how to respond.
Democrats in Congress denounced the 30-day mobilization inside the capital, which Trump previewed during the 2024 election, as an “unjustified power grab” and vowed to block an extension. The city’s elected attorney general called it an “unlawful” abuse of emergency powers to lower crime rates that the administration itself said had fallen.
But DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was more cautious, criticizing Trump’s takeover as “authoritarian” while also suggesting that the city could work with him. “What I’m focused on is the federal surge and how to make the most of the additional officer support that we have,” the mayor told reporters on Tuesday, after meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Hours later, in a video “conversation with community leaders,” Bowser said that the intervention was legal; the president had invoked “a part of the charter that he has the prerogative to invoke.” She acknowledged the city had longstanding problems, like illegal gun trafficking and violence in nightlife areas, and said the federal government could now help with them.
“Just imagine if we had the number of [DC police] officers that we should have — if we were at 3,800, instead of 3,100 and some,” said Bowser.
While protesters rallied near the White House, denouncing the administration’s “colonialism” and demanding DC statehood, Bowser was trying to effectively co-own the takeover.
In Bowser, the president has found an unlikely partner — a Democrat who had repeatedly clashed with progressives on crime, denouncing...
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Orange man good.
Crime will go down; has too.
Thugs will stay as far away as possible from the enforcement area once they realize their buddies have gone missing.
Too late democrats will realize they are on the wrong side of a 90/10 issue.
It is all so ridiculous. Why do think Trump is doing this if not to make the Nations capitol safer.
They’re had plenty of time to work with him and years to clean up the mess and make the city safe. They haven’t.
They know it will work and will make residents of other basket case cities demand the same.
Militarizing the local police is not a good thing. It creates a precedent that either Republicans or Democrats could use at their discretion — and once normalized, it will be difficult to reverse.
What happens after the 30 days? The crime problem isn’t going away. A large number of Black youth in DC have no access to quality education or decent jobs, so the cycle continues. We have to address the root causes: a broken education system, a stagnant economy that can’t support the growing number of welfare recipients, and a culture of dependency fueled by massive money printing — now $37 trillion in debt — to sustain an unproductive welfare state.
This is a complex issue, but our Founding Fathers would not have supported a police state. This trend is the result of abandoning constitutional gold and silver standards, creating fake money through endless printing, and drifting away from a moral and Christian-based society. A military police presence is not the solution. The real solution will be far more difficult and painful, but it’s the only way to fix the root problem.
Will they ever realize they are wrong? I don't think so. They pout, they scream, as if lowering crime and cleaning the streets is a bad thing. Totally unhinged.
Last time I visited Wash DC I was in fear of getting mugged. Streets around the White House are unsafe, rundown properties, punks roaming the streets at night, unsafe subway. Democrats like it that way?
President Trump is a great president, cleaning up the mess caused by idiot democrats.
DC is not a state. It is under federal jurisdiction.
You say DC is not a state — fine. But I’m talking about a police state — with a military presence in major cities, checkpoints, searches, biometric ID, retinal scans, and facial recognition. If that’s the kind of country you want, go ahead. It’s not for me.
You appear to be talking about martial law. Do you have any evidence Trump is going to declare martial law?
Tired, idiotic clap trap. Broken families are the underlying cause of crime, the result of perverse incentives that are central to welfare state. Failure to police and prosecute criminals is the immediate cause.
I’m not talking about martial law — just a military presence, approval for biometric identification, and AI systems (like Palantir) to track people, along with a stablecoin system to monitor financial transactions. They’re building a prison for us, and most of us don’t even recognize it.
This is exactly the problem — a very difficult issue that can’t simply be solved by throwing money at it. In fact, doing so probably makes the problem worse.
As far as I know, the only federal presence is to protect federal property and federal ICE agents performing their constitutional duties, which is completely constitutional.
Are you aware of anything beyond that?
Here’s an excerpt from local news: Residents in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence after the White House announced more National Guard troops and federal officers would patrol the streets around the clock.
After law enforcement set up a vehicle checkpoint along the busy 14th Street Northwest corridor, protesters shouted, “Go home, fascists!” and “Get off our streets.”
This really sounds like a police state with checkpoints.
I thought we had already established that DC is not a state and is ultimately under federal jurisdiction?
You have as selective a memory as a gaslight presstitute.
Are you a gaslight prestitute?
Ah, yes, because clearly my selective memory is part of a vast conspiracy to gaslight the world while moonlighting as a prestitute. Thanks for diagnosing me—I’ll be sure to alert the authorities.
Statehood for D.C. is bad.
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