President Donald Trump said Monday he’s taking over Washington's police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressed crime is already falling in the nation’s capital.

The new picture of law enforcement in the nation's capital began taking shape Tuesday as some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving. The city's police and federal officials,

The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital.

Washington residents are starting to see the impact of President Donald Trump’s decision to place the D.C. police under direct federal control and deploy the National Guard to the streets to fight crime.

The Guard was called out again during Trump's first term on Jan. 6, 2021, when his supporters overran the Capitol. Trump’s second-term moves in Washington come as the legal battle continues over his deployment of the National Guard in another Democratic-led city,

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