Washington, DC’s political class may scream in fury at Team Trump’s takeover of policing , but we suspect most district residents will be relieved: Regular people put public safety first.

The city’s politicians have failed to do that, and the feds have a duty to act when the nation’s capital is unsafe.

Even Democrats have been willing to stomp on DC’s demands for “home rule” when it comes to fighting crime: By a vote of 81-14 in 2023, for example, the Dem-run Senate joined with the GOP-run House to override the City Council’s bid to reduce maximum penalties for violent crime, including carjackings — and President Joe Biden signed the measure into law.

Carjackings, for the record, are still triple the 2018 level, part of a grim wave of youth crime — yet city leaders have refused

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