President Donald Trump visited police and troops Thursday that he has deployed in the US capital in what he calls a crackdown on crime.

Before federalizing the local police force and deploying the National Guard, Trump vowed to address the city's homelessness crisis.

NEW YORK (AP) — “South Park” continued its cartoon assault on the Trump administration Wednesday, with an episode that addressed the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s police department.

WASHINGTON – A slight majority of voters – 51% – oppose the Trump administration taking over the DC, police force and deploying the ... Washington and ordered the Justice Department to take over the district’s Metropolitan Police Department.

President Donald Trump said he will join law enforcement on the streets of Washington, DC, on Aug. 21 amid his federal takeover of DC

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy.

Washington DC’s top federal prosecutor says that her office will pursue the toughest criminal charges for arrests made in the Trump administration’s purported crime crackdown, even as the office softens enforcement of a DC law that makes it illegal to possess rifles and shotguns in the city.