Mayor Muriel Bowser denies Donald Trump’s emergency census, citing a decline in crime. Critics call the effort a political power game.
Some of the 800 members of the National Guard The country’s capital, deployed by US President Donald Trump, was arrived after the White House had ordered the federal fuses to take over the city’s police department and to reduce crime in what the President – without reason – called a lawless city.
The influx on Tuesday came in the morning after Trump announced that he would activate the wax members and take over the department. He quoted a emergency of crime – but referred to the same crime that the city’s officials are already noticeable.
The President has the legal right to take such steps to a certain point.
The law enables Trump to control the police for a month, but how aggressive the federal presence will be and how it could turn out remained open questions, since the city’s mayor and chief of police went to the Ministry of Justice to meet the Attorney General.
The meeting takes place for a day after Mayor Muriel Bowser said Trump’s newly announced plan to take over the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and the call in the National Guard was not a productive step. She calmly interpreted the city case that the crime has decreased steadily and said Trump’s perceived state of emergency simply does not correspond to the numbers.
She also said circular that the hands of the capital are bound and that her administration has only one choice than fulfilling. “We could deny that,” she said about Trump’s definition of a crime emergency, “but his authority is pretty wide.”
Bowser referred to Trump’s “so -called emergency” and came to the conclusion: “I will work every day to ensure that it is not a complete disaster.”
Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett, who reports from Washington, DC, said that Trump had accused Democrats of being “weak in crime”.
“He picked out democratic cities like Oakland that lies outside of San Francisco-New York, Baltimore and even Chicago,” she said. “In view of the fact that they are managed by Democrats, this makes a little concern.”
Democrats call the move “a power grip”.
“Although they say that this is technically legal, it is an enemy takeover because these powers in modern history have never been carried out,” said Halkett.
Trump’s bumpy relationship with DC
While Trump is causing his plan by saying that “we will withdraw our capital”, Bowser and the MPD claim that the overall violent crime in Washington has dropped to a low of 30 years after a strong increase in 2023.
Carjackings, for example, dropped by about 50 percent in 2024 and have been back down this year. However, more than half of the arrested are young people, and the extent of these punishments is a dispute for the Trump administration.
“The White House says that the crime may not be anymore, but that doesn’t mean that it is not a problem and that violent crimes are too high,” said Halkett.
Bowser, a Democrat, spent a large part of Trump’s first office in office, which sparked openly with the Republican President. She involved his first plans for a military parade through the streets and was in public opposition when he called a flood of law enforcement agencies in federal law in the summer of 2020.
Later she had the words “Black Lives Matter” painted in huge yellow letters on the street about a block from the White House.
In Trump’s second term, supported by the Republican control over both houses of the congress, Bowser has been entering public town migration for months and emphasized the similarities with the Trump administration in questions such as the successful efforts to bring the NFLS of the NFFL (NFL) back to the Columbia district.
She watched with an open concern about the city’s streets when Trump finally got his military parade this summer. Her decision to reduce Black Lives Matter Plaza at the beginning of this year served as a nice metaphor for the development of the dynamics of power between the two managers.
Now that the lively relationship is entered into the unknown area when Trump was followed by in months of what many DC officials had hoped for was empty threats. The new stabil has thrown Bowser into a likeable light even among her long -standing critics.
“It’s a power game and we are a simple goal,” said Clinique Chapman, CEO of DC Justice Lab. As a frequent critic of Bowser, whom she suggests, “about the surveillance of our youth” with the recent extensions of the youth exit outcome in Washington, said Chapman, Trump’s latest step “It is not about creating a safer DC. It’s all about power.”
