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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Trump Set to Deploy Wave of Federal Forces on Washington, D.C., Over Crime Problem Locals Say He's Exaggerating [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Set to Deploy Wave of Federal Forces on Washington, D.C., Over Crime Problem Locals Say He's Exaggerating](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3vlqri4t.m3u8) (3:21)  _Published 2025-08-11. President Donald Trump announced Monday he was putting the Washington, D.C. police department under federal control and deploying 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._ --- Aug 11, 2025 6:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Calls Trump's City Takeover "Unsettling"](/video/YxiAIc49/) ### D.C. 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In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order and public safety in Washington, DC. And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. So today, we're declaring public safety emergency in the District of Columbia. And Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is who's fantastic, is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of this moment, and I'll be making the appropriate notifications to Congress and to the mayor. Our new DEA administrator, who's one of the top in the country, he better be Terry. If you're not going to get rid of you so fast, Terry. Cole. Terry. Thanks. Very good. We just just got him. Most highly recommended person. And you'll be designated as the interim federal commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Department. Okay. And you run them tough. They're good. You have a lot of good people. You have people that shouldn't be there. You also have people that shouldn't be there. They got in there because of woke. But you have a lot of great police. And those people are the ones that want to help you. This city will no longer be a sanctuary for illegal alien criminals. We will have full, seamless, integrated cooperation at all levels of law enforcement and will deploy officers across the district with an overwhelming presence. You have more police and you'll be so happy. So the process begins right now. It actually started over the weekend and we confronted a lot of very bad people. But it's it's going to be something that will be pretty amazing to you as you watch it. And I think most of you say it's a beautiful thing to do it right. We're going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on. They've been very they're very dirty, very, uh, got a lot of problems. But we've already started that. We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people. Many places that they can go. And we're going to help them as much as you can help. But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see. The Metropolitan Police Department and the federal authorities will be supported in the effort. A really big effort. The 800 D.C. National Guardsmen that will put on. 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