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Washington residents march through the Columbia Heights neighborhood in protest of President Donald Trump's seizure of local police and anti-immigration policies, on Aug. 22.

Re “What Donald Trump’s crackdown looks like from the streets of Washington” (Aug. 30): In 1990, I was teaching English in Barcelona.

One day, I noticed people wearing black armbands. When I asked my students why, they told me it was in recognition of Francisco Franco’s birthday.

I was taken aback. Why would anyone mourn the loss of a fascist dictator? I was told it was because they believed that, under him, the streets were safe.

No one is angered by a drop in crime, but I would remind Americans that the streets were safe under Franco; they were safe from East Berlin to Kamchatka under the Soviet regim

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