在周一的特别新闻发布会上，唐纳德·特朗普总统透露了计划接管华盛顿特区警察局并在首都部署国民警卫队，打击他所说的猖獗的暴力犯罪，统计数据显示，暴力犯罪实际上正在减少。
“我们来这里是为了一个非常严肃的目的。非常严肃，非常，”特朗普说。“事情失控了。但是我们会很快控制住局面，就像我们在南部边境所做的那样。我宣布一项历史性的行动，将我们国家的首都从犯罪、流血、混乱、肮脏和更糟的状况中拯救出来。今天是华盛顿特区的解放日，我们要夺回我们的首都。”
他说他是宣布公共安全紧急状态为了将华盛顿警察局置于联邦控制之下并在城市街道上派驻国民警卫队。
特朗普宣布，司法部长帕姆·邦迪(Pam Bondi)将接管大都会警察局，美国缉毒署署长特里·科尔(Terry Cole)将担任该部队的临时联邦专员。
他站在邦迪、国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯、哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官珍宁·皮尔罗、美国联邦调查局主任卡什·帕特尔和内政部长道格·布尔古姆身边传递信息，他们都将在特朗普宣布的接管中发挥作用。
“让我说清楚。华盛顿的犯罪今天结束了。我们将动用一切力量打击这里的犯罪分子，”邦迪说。
Hegseth说，将部署800名国民警卫队队员开始行动。他后来告诉福克斯新闻频道的劳拉·英格拉哈姆，警卫人员部署多久是“总统的决定”
国防部长表示，这支警卫队将发挥与今年夏天早些时候部署到洛杉矶的反冰抗议活动类似的作用。虽然他们不会履行执法职能，“但他们会积极主动。如果你对他们采取行动或开枪，就会有后果，”他说。
特朗普说，首都“已经被暴力团伙和嗜血罪犯，野生青年的流动暴徒，吸毒成瘾的疯子和无家可归的人所取代”，并补充说，警察“现在他们可以做他们想做的任何事情。”
与总统的说法相反，华盛顿大都会警察局今年迄今的初步犯罪比较显示，自去年以来，华盛顿特区的整体犯罪率下降了7%，其中暴力犯罪下降了26%，财产犯罪下降了5%。
他说，该市的无家可归者也将得到处理。
他说:“我们将清除公园里所有无家可归者的营地，我们美丽的公园，现在很多人无法在上面行走。”“他们非常非常脏，有很多问题。但是我们已经开始了。我们正在转移营地，努力照顾人们。其中一些人，我们甚至不知道他们是如何到达那里的。其中一些人来自世界不同的国家和地区。没人知道他们是谁。他们不知道。”
他继续说，“但是他们在那里赶走了来自整个城市的地下通道和公共场所的人。他们可以去很多地方，我们会尽你所能帮助他们。但他们不会被允许把我们的首都变成一片废墟，让全世界看到，”他说。
“如果我们的首都是肮脏的，我们整个国家都是肮脏的，他们不尊重我们，”他说，将华盛顿与其他世界城市相比较。
众议院司法委员会(House Judiciary Committee)资深民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)表示，他将提出一项决议，以扭转他所谓的“这种明显荒谬的”地方紧急状态，并“恢复哥伦比亚特区市长、议会和人民的全部自治权力。”
华盛顿市长、民主党人穆里尔·博斯韦尔(Muriel Boswer)周一下午回应称，“我们正处于30年来的暴力犯罪低点，”他补充说，“尽管今天的行动令人不安，而且是前所未有的，但鉴于过去的一些言论，我不能说我们完全惊讶。”
总统在他的社交媒体平台上发布了多个帖子，宣传新闻发布会，并于周日发布消息称，新闻发布会“还将涉及清洁以及我们曾经美丽且维护良好的首都的总体物理改造和状况。”
在另一篇帖子中，特朗普表示，无家可归者应该离开华盛顿特区，并附有他从白宫到弗吉尼亚州斯特林高尔夫俱乐部的路线上无家可归者营地的照片。
“无家可归的人必须马上搬出去。我们会给你住处，但要远离首都，”特朗普写道。“罪犯，你不用搬出去。我们要把你关进属于你的监狱。”
新闻发布会之前，特朗普上周下令加大执法力度，作为他3月份签署的“让哥伦比亚特区变得安全美丽”的行政命令的一部分。
一名白宫官员表示，执法努力是“政府改善整体公共安全的整体方法”，并表示执法将“集中在交通繁忙的旅游区和其他已知的热点地区。”
该官员补充说，联邦官员“将被识别，在标记的单位，非常明显。”
特朗普周日表示，他给了华盛顿市长穆里尔·布瑟一个降低犯罪率的机会，但她没有做到这一点。
“华盛顿市长穆里尔·布瑟是一个好人，她已经尝试过了，但她被给予了很多机会，犯罪数字变得更糟，这个城市只会变得更脏，更没有吸引力。美国公众不会再忍受下去了，”他声称。
布瑟星期天说，华盛顿在过去两年里一直在减少暴力犯罪，“事实上，已经降到了30年来的最低点”
“的确，我们在2023年有一个可怕的犯罪高峰，但这不是2023年，这是2025年，我们已经通过与社区合作，与警方合作，与我们的检察官合作，事实上，与联邦政府合作，”布瑟告诉MSNBC。
周六，特朗普表示，美国首都已经成为“世界上最危险的城市之一。”
上周，他威胁要在华盛顿部署国民警卫队，并且，正如他自1月份就职以来在多个场合所做的那样，建议应该由联邦政府接管。
此前，政府效率部的前雇员爱德华·科里斯汀在试图阻止华盛顿的一起劫车案时被殴打
这位白宫官员说，为期七天的执法工作由美国公园警察领导，但包括来自地铁运输警察局、美铁警察局、美国国会警察局、华盛顿地铁警察局、国土安全部调查、联邦保护局、执法和清除行动、缉毒局、联邦调查局、酒精、烟草、火器和爆炸物局、美国法警服务、美国联邦检察官办公室-哥伦比亚特区、内政部、审前服务局、法院服务和罪犯监督局(CSOSA)的人员。
Trump puts DC police department under federal control, deploys National Guard
At an extraordinary news conference on Monday, President Donald Trump revealed plans totake over the Washington, D.C. police departmentand deploy National Guard troops in the nation's capital to combat what he says is rampant violent crime that statistics show is actually decreasing.
"We're here for a very serious purpose. Very serious, very," Trump said. "Something's out of control. But we're going to put it in control very quickly, like we did in the southern border. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back."
He said he wasdeclaring a public safety emergencyin order to put the Washington police department under federal control and station the National Guard on the city's streets.
Trump announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi will be takingcommand of the Metropolitan Police Department and DEA Administrator Terry Cole will be interim federal commissioner of the force.
He delivered his message standing beside Bondi, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, FBI Director Kash Patel and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum who will all play a role in the takeover Trump announced.
"Let me be crystal clear. Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today. We are going to use every power we have to fight criminals here," Bondi said.
Hegseth said 800 National Guardsmen would be deployed to start. He later told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that how long the Guard members are deployed is "the president's call."
The Defense secretary said the Guard would serve similar functions as those deployed to Los Angeles earlier this summer in reaction to anti-ICE protests. While they won't be performing law enforcement functions, "They're going to be proactive. If you take an action or a shot at them, there will be a consequence,” he said.
Trump said the capital "has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people," and added that police "now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want."
Contrary to the president's claim, preliminary year-to-date crime comparisons from Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department show that overall crime in D.C. has decreased by 7% since last year, with violent crime down 26% and property crime reduced by 5%.
He said the city's homeless would be dealt with as well.
"We're going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on," he said. "They've been very, very dirty, very -- got a lot of problems. But we've already started that. We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people. Some of those people, we don't know how they even got there. And some of those people are from different countries, different parts of the world. Nobody knows who they are. They have no idea."
He continued, "But they're there getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city. There are many places that they can go, and we're going to help them as much as you can help. But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see," he said.
"If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty and they don't respect us," he said, comparing Washington to other world cities.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin said he will be introducing a resolution to reverse what he called "this plainly ridiculous" state of local emergency and "restore full home rule powers to the Mayor, Council and people of the District of Columbia.”
Washington Mayor Muriel Boswer, a Democrat, responded Monday afternoon that "we're at a 30 year violent crime low," adding, "while this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we're totally surprised."
The president promoted the news conference in multiple posts on his social media platform and on Sunday posted that it would "also be about Cleanliness and the General Physical Renovation and Condition of our once beautiful and well maintained Capital."
In a separate post, Trump said the homeless should leave D.C., accompanied by photos of homeless encampments along his route from the White House to his golf club in Sterling, Virginia.
"The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital," Trump wrote. "The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong."
The news conference comes after Trump last week ordered an increase in law enforcement as part of an executive order he signed in March to "Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful."
A White House official said the law enforcement effort a "whole of government approach to improve overall public safety" and said that law enforcement will "be focused on high traffic tourist areas and other known hotspots."
The official added that federal officers "will be identified, in marked units, and highly visible."
Trump said Sunday that he has given D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser an opportunity to reduce crime rates but she has failed to do that.
"The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive. The American Public is not going to put up with it any longer," he claimed.
Bowser said Sunday that Washington has spent the last two years driving down violent crime, “driving it down to a 30 year low, in fact.”
“It is true that we had a terrible spike in crime in 2023, but this is not 2023, this is 2025 and we've done that by working with the community, working with the police, working with our prosecutors, and, in fact, working with the federal government," Bowser told MSNBC.
On Saturday, Trump said the nation’s capital has become “one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World.”
Last week, he threatened to deploy the National Guard to D.C. and, as he has on several occasions since he was inaugurated in January, suggested that there should be a federal takeover.
That call came after Edward Coristine, a former Department of Government Efficiency employee, was beaten after he tried to break up a carjacking in D.C.
The seven-day law enforcement effort is being led by the U.S. Park Police but includes personnel from the Metro Transit Police Department, Amtrak Police Department, United States Capitol Police, Washington’s Metro Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, Federal Protective Service, Enforcement and Removal Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, United States Marshals Service, United States Attorney’s Office-District of Columbia, Department of Interior, Pre-Trial Services Agency, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), the White House official said.
