More than two weeks after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C. and sent hundreds of federal agents into city streets, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said she believed the boosted law enforcement presence is working.

“We know that we have had fewer gun crimes, fewer homicides and we have experienced an extreme reduction in carjackings,” she said at a wide-ranging news conference Wednesday afternoon, flanked by top city officials including the chief of police. “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers” enhancing the work of local police officers, she added. Advertisement

Her Wednesday tone, largely upbeat, stirred swift rebuke among some D.C. Council members. Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4) said she was “deeply disappointed.” Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) wrote online

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