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These actions follow Trump’s Monday announcement officially invoking section 740 of the district of Columbia Home Rule Ac, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and activating the National Guard to get a grip on crime.
“I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but … you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed,” Trump told reporters during the press conference.
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“The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don’t know what that means, because it just goes back 25 years,” the president continued, adding, “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore.”
WATCH: (Video from Fox 5 DC)
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund offered further perspective on the reality of an issue during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily this week, noting that the D.C. homicide rate is “five to six times that of any other major city in the United States.”
He added that — despite the radical left’s freakouts — this type of task force is nothing new.
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“So when people talk about, ‘Oh, there’s a big drop,’ there’s a drop from 2023 to 2024, but it’s still significant — double what we had in around 2010,” Sund added.
Meanwhile, leftists have spoken out against Trump’s mission to address crime and homelessness in the nation’s capital. Failed vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz’s daughter, for instance, ranted about Trump’s decision, describing it as “bitch baby, wussy, scaredy cat behavior.”