LONG overdue...
Just sayin...
President Trump is stepping up federal law enforcement in D.C. this week, deploying officials from over 15 agencies in a high-profile push to crack down on crime.
Why it matters: D.C.'s mix of federal- and city-controlled land creates overlapping law enforcement zones — making it easier to increase arrests, but also raising alarms over accountability and civil rights.
State of play: Trump's high-visibility, multi-agency operation launched Friday — led by the U.S. Park Police, with potential for extension.
Full article, HERE from Axios.
If you go into DC anytime, but especially after dark, you take your life in your hands...
Not a single person I worked with over 13 years actually lived IN the district. They either lived in VA or in MD, some as far away as almost to Baltimore! And none of us liked having to go to the Navy Yard for meetings, especially if we didn't have parking access on the base.
Friends who were LEOs with various agencies hated dealing with Metro PD, because of the lack of cooperation on anything from a traffic stop to murder. And apparently MPD would 'try' to take cases away from Federal officers that occured on federal property, depending on the perp's identity!
And if you went up into Georgetown to have a meal, and parked your VA plate vehicle in a 'secure' lot, you might only have a broken window, if you were lucky...
So no, we didn't go into the district unless we had to, or only to certain museums, etc. and only on off days...
Which was a shame, as there was a lot to see.
LBJ was an asshole. People weren't supposed to live in DC.
But he bussed in tons of poor people so he could feel like a slave master of old.
All that this increased police presence in DC, for as long as it lasts, will do is drive the criminals out into VA and MD. Like rats and mice when you fumigate a house, you will get a few of the stupid ones who didn't leave, the others will return as soon as the threat is gone. back to business as usual.