https://time.com/7308580/trump-dc-violent-crime/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/YxiAIc49/poster.jpg?width=720 D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Calls Trump's City Takeover "Unsettling" President Donald Trump announced Monday he was temporarily putting the Washington, D.C. police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard on the streets of the nation's capitol, a striking move taken over the objections of local leaders, who say Trump is exaggerating the city's crime problems. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that crime was down not just from a post-pandemic peak in 2023, but from 2019 levels prior to the pandemic. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/YxiAIc49.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/YxiAIc49 224 2025-08-12T16:16:49+00:00 no no