Oakland is on a “very bad” list. The Bay Area city this week joined New York, Baltimore, Chicago and Los Angeles as one of the Democrat-led jurisdictions President Donald Trump signaled could be next for a federal takeover.

Trump’s comments Monday came as he sent National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., and said the federal government would take control of local police to help make what he has called an “incredibly dangerous” city safe again. Washington, however, saw its lowest incidence of violent crime last year in decades, according to U.S. Department of Justice officials.

“We have other cities also that are bad, very bad,” Trump said Monday . “You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a

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