Overview

• President Trump announced plans to take operational control of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police and deploy the National Guard, warning he may replicate the move in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore.
• D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb publicly condemned the action as unlawful and unnecessary, noting that violent crime in the district is at a decades-low.
• Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner accused the president of orchestrating a political stunt to distract from questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
• Krasner pledged to invoke the 10th Amendment and file lawsuits to prevent any attempt to federalize Philadelphia’s police department.
• Philadelphia officials highlighted the city’s lowest homicide rate in over 50 years and declines in most crime categories to dispute claims of a public-safety crisis.