Trump federalizing DC police, deploying National Guard in capital crime crackdown

essentialsaltes · Aug 20, 2025

WaPo/George Mason poll of 604 Washington residents.

Starts with an interesting deep cut using past surveys on how residents feel about their neighborhood as a place to live. Net positive responses have grown from 56% in the 1980s to 89% today.

Biggest problem facing the city? Trump & Trump take-over, followed closely by crime.

Do you support Trump taking control of the local police and adding national guard and FBI to the streets?

Strongly support 9%
Somewhat support 8%
Somewhat oppose 10%
Strongly oppose 69%

[Of those who had seen federal troops on the streets] Does it make you feel more or less safe?

More safe 18%
Less safe 61%
no difference 20%

essentialsaltes · Aug 20, 2025

Protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth, Miller as they get photo op with DC National Guard

Protesters booed and jeered Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as they came to [Union] station, located blocks from the U.S. Capitol, to thank the troops. The crowd's chants drowned out the voices of the officials.

Vance and Miller dismissed the jeers of the protesters, which drowned out their press gaggle, calling them "crazy" and "communists."

Vance added that he believed that crime statistics do not report the full scope of crime on the streets, however he declined to talk about evidence that backed his claim up and told a reporter to "You just got to look around."

essentialsaltes · Aug 20, 2025

MAKE DC HUNGRY AGAIN! SANDWICH CONTROL NOW!

Trump’s D.C. Takeover Targets the Real Criminals: Delivery Drivers

Several residents report seeing Uber and delivery drivers detained.

“Yesterday, my UberEats driver got arrested by ICE while he was delivering my food. I walked downstairs to pick it up and I noticed his location hadn’t changed in two or three minutes, and it was like two or three blocks away from my house,” said D.C. resident Tyler DeSue in a TikTok he posted on Sunday that went viral. “I stepped into the streets and I saw police lights … he was being questioned by eight or nine ICE officers.”

D.C. residents are reporting that they’re seeing fewer delivery drivers out and about ... And restaurants across the city saw a 25 percent drop in reservations in the days immediately after Trump federalized the city’s police forces

Bradskii · Aug 20, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
Vance added that he believed that crime statistics do not report the full scope of crime on the streets, however he declined to talk about evidence that backed his claim up and told a reporter to "You just got to look around."

I think that sums him up quite nicely.

essentialsaltes · Aug 21, 2025

National Guard vehicle collides with civilian car near US Capitol, trapping one person

One person was trapped inside the car after the accident and had to be extricated by emergency responders, according to D.C. fire department spokesman Vito Maggiolo. The person was transported to a hospital with minor injuries.

A video posted online showed a tan-colored armored vehicle and a silver SUV with a crushed side. The military vehicle was twice the height of the civilian car.

essentialsaltes · Aug 21, 2025

Dehumanization.

public hermit · Aug 21, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
Dehumanization.

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Cockroaches? Everything else follows.

BCP1928 · Aug 21, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
Vance added that he believed that crime statistics do not report the full scope of crime on the streets, however he declined to talk about evidence that backed his claim up and told a reporter to "You just got to look around."

He's right. We should just look around in SE, the high crime area of the District where his federal officers are afraid to go.

Bradskii · Aug 21, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
Dehumanization.

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Sounds like he's channeling Tony Montana...

Akita Suggagaki · Aug 21, 2025

Where was this concern for law and order when he pardoned J6 rioters?

wing2000 · Monday at 3:20 PM

Oh look...a congressman, representing a district in Arizona, is introducing a bill to extend the "take overover" of D.C. to 6 months, citing "special conditons".

Say, who is representing the people of D.C.?

Under Washington’s Home Rule Act — which grants D.C. limited forms of self-governance — the president can take over the Metropolitan Police Department for up to 30 days if “special conditions of an emergency nature exist,” and the Senate and House must pass a joint resolution to extend that time frame any further. The bill, introduced Friday by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona), seeks to extend not only the current federal takeover from 30 days to roughly six months, but also amend Section 740 of the Home Rule Act to apply to all future declared emergencies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/23/dc-federal-takeover-police-extend/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

DaisyDay · Tuesday at 9:22 AM

wing2000 said:
Oh look...a congressman, representing a district in Arizona, is introducing a bill to extend the "take overover" of D.C. to 6 months, citing "special conditons".

Say, who is representing the people of D.C.?

Under Washington’s Home Rule Act — which grants D.C. limited forms of self-governance — the president can take over the Metropolitan Police Department for up to 30 days if “special conditions of an emergency nature exist,” and the Senate and House must pass a joint resolution to extend that time frame any further. The bill, introduced Friday by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona), seeks to extend not only the current federal takeover from 30 days to roughly six months, but also amend Section 740 of the Home Rule Act to apply to all future declared emergencies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/23/dc-federal-takeover-police-extend/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

That's the glaring problem with this - no emergency actually exists, just the declaration.

wing2000 · Tuesday at 11:07 AM

DaisyDay said:
That's the glaring problem with this - no emergency actually exists, just the declaration.

...and if the POTUS plans to deploy the guard to Chicago or any other city, the Insurrection Act will have to be invoked.

Strong statements from the IL governor will probably be argued as an act of "rebellion."

essentialsaltes · Wednesday at 10:26 AM

essentialsaltes said:
Man Faces Felony Charges After Subway Attack on Federal Officer in DC
A 37-year-old man hurled a Subway sandwich at a federal agent in the nation's capital. A video of the incident has gone viral, in which the man can be seen standing along with agents and suddenly whips his deli sandwich at one of them in the chest.

A federal grand jury refused to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer, and grand jurors refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent.

wing2000 · Wednesday at 7:01 PM

essentialsaltes said:
A federal grand jury refused to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer, and grand jurors refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent.

Imagine that? A panel of citizens are not buying what Ms Pirro is selling.

DaisyDay · Thursday at 3:07 PM

The national guard is making DC neat and tidy again.

https://x.com/YourAnonCentral/status/1960743298894848025

“We’re going to clean it up real quick,” Trump told reporters at the White House, noting the high crime rate in the city and the recent attack of a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer by 10 teens Aug. 3.

Trump federalizing DC police, deploying National Guard in capital crime crackdown

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