Squeezed between what works and what Democrats demand — pity DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Washington is unquestionably benefiting from President Donald Trump’s policing intervention, Bowser admitted Wednesday : carjackings down 87% and violent crime dropping 45% in the three weeks since the prez sent in the National Guard and took over the city’s police department.
DC residents see the difference too — even if, as loyal Democrats who’ll never say a good word about Trump, they tell pollsters how awful it is.
“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what [DC’s own PD] has been able to do in this city,” Bowser kindly said this week.
Hmm: Two weeks earlier, she was slamming the federal takeover as an “authoritarian push” and supporting DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb