On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Senior Law Enforcement Analyst and former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey stated that “There is a problem in terms of violent crime, not only in D.C. but in cities around the country.” But there has to be a long-term strategy to maintain the gains made by National Guard deployments in D.C. and said that expanding the area of patrol for some federal officers is an idea to increase police presence.

Ramsey said, “I’m not surprised that the numbers are down, with the number of law enforcement and military personnel that [have] been sent to the district, it’s pretty easy to suppress crime. But suppressing crime is not the same thing as solving the crime problem. These numbers cannot remain forever. Eventually, they’re going to leave, and when t

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