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Federal officials have cleared about 75 homeless camps around the nation’s capital under President Trump’s effort to clean up Washington, DC — and they’re not done yet. United States Park Police have removed dozens of tents since the president penned the “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” executive order in March, the Department of the Interior told The Post Friday. Authorities have also scrubbed up to 80 graffiti sites from Capitol Hill Parks as of Aug. 6, Interior officials said. Interior leaders, led by Secretary Doug Burgum, are revising guidelines so there is a no-tolerance policy for illegal...

WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C.'s police chief is the force's top official once again, ... / ...Chief Terry Cole will now be considered Bondi’s “designee"...

Border czar Tom Homan on Wednesday said that President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., means that the city can no longer enforce its sanctuary status. Homan said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is working “hand-in-hand” with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), which has been federally taken over, to arrest and deport any illegal immigrant criminal in Washington. The border czar promised that any illegal immigrant who commits a crime will not be protected under any sanctuary law. “I think D.C., under federal control, is not gonna be a sanctuary city. We’re...

An unidentified man was shot and killed on Monday night in Washington, D.C., just blocks away from a protest against President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to combat crime in the city. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) reported that officers responded to the 1200 block of 12th Street NW at approximately 7:01 p.m., where they discovered an unconscious adult male with multiple gunshot wounds. D.C. Fire and EMS attempted life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The shooting occurred as a large group of protesters, organized in opposition to Trump’s plan to...

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday issued an order wiping out Washington, D.C, police policies that protected illegal immigrants, and she named a temporary leader for the district’s Metropolitan Police Department.

Looters are plundering DC's business community, yet the mayor of DC has left the city to head to martha's vineyard. Meanwhile radical progressives accuse Trump of taking over, yet locals see things differently. More show notes: Yes Boo Boo it's them. All up in Lululemon stealing everything. Stores closing in these towns. Crime abounds. One citizen says "they wanted the troops to come out for years". Plus some liberal nonsense in this video.

“It is my opinion that the Bondi order is unlawful, and that you are not legally obligated to follow it,” DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb wrote The District of Columbia on Friday morning sued the Trump administration over Attorney General Pam Bondi's appointment of an emergency commissioner for the city's police department.The suit appeared inevitable since Bondi made the announcement Thursday afternoon, as part of President Trump's initiative to send federal agents to the nation's capitol to curb violent crime, and top D.C. officials challenged Bondi's move last night.DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in the lawsuit that Trump...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department.Washington’s police department chief said Trump’s move would threaten law and order by upending the command structure. “In my nearly three decades in law enforcement, I have never seen a single government action that would cause a greater threat to law and order than this dangerous directive,” Police Chief Pamela Smith said in a court...

Concerns came to a head during the pandemic, when carjackings surged and many of those arrested were children. Carjackings and other crimes have declined considerably.The arrest of two 15-year-olds after a government worker was attacked last week on a Washington, D.C., street was going to attract attention in a city where violent crimes committed by young people have long gripped the public consciousness.But the man who was assaulted in what he said was an attempted carjacking was not just any government worker — he was a high-profile Trump administration employee. And in the days that followed, the president lashed out,...

A DC resident has gone viral after saying she feels “more safe than ever” following President Trump’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. “Finally able to chill at a red light with my windows down, not worried about if one of them young n—as is coming,” beaming TikTok user bigdawglexi said in the video, before sighing contentedly. “Riding through the city, feeling more safe than I ever felt,” she said in the short clip, filmed inside her car at night. In a separate video, she said it had been “real quiet in the city, real livable, real ‘I like...

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a two-page order on Thursday rescinding illegal immigration protections in Washington, D.C., and naming an "emergency police commissioner" for the city's Metropolitan Police Department. Bondi's order, titled "Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia," mostly took aim at sanctuary city policies within the nation's capital, rescinding any order that limits how Metropolitan police officers can handle interactions and incidents with illegal immigrants. She also stripped power from Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith by naming Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as the department's "emergency police commissioner," granting him all the "powers and duties...

D.C. police officers making traffic stops can now notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents about encounters with undocumented immigrants, per an order the police chief issued Thursday. Why it matters: Days after President Trump took control of the city's police force, sanctuary protections are being rolled back in D.C. The big picture: Trump praised the move Thursday, saying that a next step for nationwide immigration enforcement would be identifying undocumented immigrants during traffic stops. "I think that's going to happen all over the country. We want to stop crime," Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office. When asked...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser left the District for Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday after President Donald Trump federalized the police department. A spokesperson for the mayor said she had a family obligation, had to pick up her daughter and will return on Friday. Bowser gave more details about that obligation later Thursday after Trump posted a screenshot of reporting by News4's Mark Segraves about her leaving town. "This week, I cancelled a scheduled family trip to lead our city's crisis management efforts. I also made the more difficult decision to not disrupt my daughter's camp plans. I needed to get to...

Expect Joe Scarborough & Co. to soon return to their regularly scheduled programming of trashing President Trump. But at least in this moment, the show has struck a very different tone on the issue of Trump's moves to use federal agents to bolster crime-fighting in DC. On today's show, Susan Page of USA Today was the first to suggest that Trump has set a "trap" for Democrats. Oppose Trump's crime-fighting efforts at their peril. As Page mordantly put it: "There are very few politicians who want to stand up for crime." Joe Scarborough ran with that, repeatedly referring to Trump's...

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”...

August 14 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will seek long-term federal control of Washington's police force to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. But Trump can expect a flurry of lawsuits if he tries to do so without Congress's approval. Here is why. WHO CONTROLS DC LAW ENFORCEMENT?The Democratic mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, has authority over the city's Metropolitan Police Department. But a federal law from 1973 known as the Home Rule Act allows the president to take control of the MPD for 30 days during an emergency. Trump invoked this provision of...

NEW YORK (AP) — As National Guard troops deploy across her city as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to clamp down on crime, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is responding with relative restraint.She’s called Trump’s takeover of the city’s police department and his decision to activate 800 members of the guard “ unsettling and unprecedented ” and gone as far as to cast his efforts as part of an “authoritarian push.”But Bowser has so far avoided the kind of biting rhetoric and personal attacks typical of other high-profile Democratic leaders, despite the unprecedented incursion into her city.“While this action today...

When your daily life in a city is marked by a series of fearsome conversations, signs of squalor, and dangerous encounters, no rational person can call it safe.The Trump administration is confronting another major problem, so naturally, Democrats and the media are busy at work claiming the problem doesn’t actually exist or otherwise can’t be solved by any obvious solution. This time, it’s crime and disorder in Washington, D.C., something anyone who has lived there for 24 hours is appalled by.I lived there for 14 years. The decay and lawlessness are a primary reason I left.It was never worse during...

Lots of misinformation is being spread about President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize law enforcement in Washington, D.C. Much of it is the usual Trump Derangement Syndrome: “fascist” tendencies toward “authoritarianism” at the expense of “black and brown” people because of DJT’s “racism” and desire to bury the Epstein scandal. There’s no “emergency” justifying the takeover. The “solution” is to do what Democrats failed to do for decades: Make DC the 51st state so it need not undergo such “humiliation.” Where to start? My point of departure is political. Washington is the “federal city.” The Constitution is explicit. Congress has...

President Donald Trump said he thinks it's a great idea for reporters who claim that D.C. crime is not a problem to go on a ride-along with law enforcement to get an accurate sense of the situation in the nation's capital. Speaking to reporters at a press conference from the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, Trump took questions about his latest move to federalize law enforcement in the nation's capital due to out-of-control crime.READ MORE: ABC Anchor Shuts Down Dem D.C. Talking Point With Shocking Line About Crime Around News BureauMORE: Big: Trump Administration Takes Control of the District of ColumbiaOne...