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   WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to once   
   again federalize Washington, D.C.'s police force, in what he suggested   
   could come in response to the city’s mayor’s stated refusal to cooperate   
   with immigration enforcement.   
      
   Trump’s emergency order, which took over the local police force, expired   
   last week. Hours before it elapsed, Mayor Muriel Bowser said that the city   
   would not cooperate with Immigration, Customs and Enforcement in their   
   continued operations in the nation’s capital. Earlier, she had said the   
   city would work with other federal agencies even after the emergency order   
   expired.   
      
   In an early-morning social media post on Monday, Trump said his   
   intervention into the D.C.'s law enforcement had improved crime in the   
   city, a claim Bowser has backed up, though, data shows crime was already   
   falling in Washington before the law enforcement surge began.   
      
   Trump said crime could increase if cooperation on immigration enforcement   
   ceases, in which case he would “call a National Emergency, and Federalize,   
   if necessary!!!”   
      
   The mayor’s office declined to comment.   
      
   The White House did not say if Trump would follow through on his threat.   
   It also did not say whether the president had considered trying to extend   
   his previous order that placed the city’s police force under federal   
   control. The order was not renewed by Congress and lapsed September 11.   
      
   Later Monday, speaking in the Oval Office where he signed an order sending   
   the National Guard into Memphis, Trump said they would federalize the   
   police in Washington if they had to, “but we don’t have to anymore,   
   because it’s in such great shape.”   
      
      
   Bowser issued an order September 2, setting up how the local police will   
   continue working with the federal law enforcement agencies that continue   
   working in the city. The order listed a number of federal agencies she   
   anticipated working cooperatively with the MPD, the local police,   
   including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Secret   
   Service, among other agencies. Absent was ICE.   
      
   Speaking September 10 at a ribbon cutting ceremony, the mayor said   
   “immigration enforcement is not what MPD does,” referring to the local   
   police department. She added that when the emergency order ends, “it won’t   
   be what MPD does in the future.”   
      
   Data analyzed by the Associated Press during the emergency period showed   
   that more than 40% of arrests were immigration related, highlighting that   
   the Trump administration continued to advance its hardline immigration   
   policies as it sought to fight crime in the nation’s capital.   
      
   Federal law enforcement agencies and National Guard units from D.C. and   
   eight states are continuing operations in the city. The district’s   
   attorney general filed a lawsuit opposing the use of the military in the   
   city.   
      
   On Monday, a group of former civilian leaders and retired four-star level   
   officers weighed in on the case, highlighting what they said were the   
   dangers of presidents deploying the National Guard for law enforcement,   
   which they said could pose “safety concerns for servicemembers and the   
   public alike.” Among the officers, who served during both Republican and   
   Democratic administrations, was former National Security Agency director   
   Michael Hayden.   
      
   Trump’s threat comes the same day that the House Committee on Rules is   
   taking up several D.C.-related bills, including a proposal to lower the   
   age at which juveniles can be tried to 14 from 16 for certain serious   
   crimes, as well as restricting the district’s authority over its   
   sentencing laws and its role in selecting judges.   
      
   The bills passed out of the House Committee on Oversight and Government   
   Reform last week on a party-line vote.   
      
   The district is granted autonomy through a limited home rule agreement   
   passed in 1973, but federal political leaders retain significant control   
   over local affairs, including the approval of the budget and laws passed   
   by the D.C council.   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/trump-dc-washington-law-enforcement-   
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