Democrats suffer ugly meltdown over promise of safety in DC — but city dwellers are optimistic

President Donald Trump has temporarily taken control of the Metropolitan Police Department — as is his prerogative under Section 740 of the Home Rule Act — and ordered on Monday the deployment of the National Guard to "re-establish law, order, and public safety" in the national capital.

"Rising violence in the capital now urgently endangers public servants, citizens, and tourists, disrupts safe and secure transportation and the proper functioning of the Federal Government, and forces the diversion of critical public resources toward emergency response and security measures," Trump noted in a corresponding executive order. "These conditions cannot persist. We will make the District of Columbia one of the safest cities in the world, not the most dangerous."

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