President Trump announced Monday that the federal government would be taking over Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, flooding the city’s streets with National Guard troops and sending in the military “if it’s needed” — while looking to do the same in other major U.S. cities.

“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Trump said at the press conference.

Trump has used the alleged attempted carjacking of a Department of Government Efficiency employee to mischaracterize Washington, D.C., as a dangerous city overrun with violence, despite official statistics showing historic declines in violent crimes.

Data released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in January, revealed that total violent cr

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