When President Donald Trump announced his plans to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department earlier this month, he included a not-so-subtle threat to liberal cities beyond Washington : either clean up or face the threat of a federal takeover.

“We’re going to have a tremendous success on what we’re doing,” Trump said regarding the enlistment of the National Guard to patrol the nation’s capital before warning blue-leaning cities. “They’re all watching, and maybe they’ll self-clean up, and maybe they’ll self-do this, and get rid of the cashless bail thing and all of the things that caused the problem.”

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