Gillian Snyder, retired New York Police Department officer, began working in a research tank in the center of Washington, DC, four years ago. At that time, at the height of the epidemic, the area had a completely different feeling.
Snyder recalls, “You cannot walk on the fourteenth street or street 16 near the White House without seeing a lot of disturbances and many homeless camps,” Snyder recalls. “Today, it’s more clean. You feel great safe.”
Snider is among the half of Dzina of military experts who told NBC News that they are confused about the unprecedented decision
For one of them, they notice that the crime is in its lowest level in the country’s capital. In early January, federal prosecutors in Washington The press released With the topic line: “Violent crime in the capital presses 30 years.” Since then, it has decreased by 26 %, according to Capital Police Department.
However, on Monday, Trump photographed the capital as Helskib, infected with the crime and said that the Prosecutor Bam Bondi “will take over the leadership of the Metropolitan police administration as of this moment.”
In his case, Trump distributed recent violent incidents in Washington, including the deadly shooting of a trainee in Congress and an attempt to strip Edward Corestine, an original employee of the Ministry of Government efficiency known on the Internet as “big balls”.
Trump said: “Our capital has been overlooked by violent gangs and thirsty criminals, who wander in mobs from wild youth, and the anesthesia of crazy and homeless.”
A senior law enforcement official told NBC News that a preliminary federal effort this week was chaotic. The official said that up to 120 FBI agents, most of them from the FBI, worked in seizures with the Metropolitan Police Department this week. But the agents were mixing their careful role in the streets, who were informed at any time.
Another federal official said that the confusion continued on Monday. “No one knows who is the official or what he is supposed to do,” the official said.
Another federal official said that the unique federal law enforcement vehicles abandon the patrol cars in Washington to provide support if necessary. Some of the agents rejected these efforts made to a waste of resources, as one described the joke of the processions as a “federal funeral”.
One of the prominent groups, the Capital Police Union, said it supports acquisition by the president, saying that the administration suffers from “chronic mismanagement” and “lack of employment.”
“The union agrees that the crime is out of control, and that the immediate procedure is necessary to restore public safety,” he said in a statement. “However, we emphasize that federal intervention should be a temporary measure, with the ultimate goal of empowering the entirely present MPD to protect our city.”
Anxiety from former presidents
The announcement of the federal acquisition of Art Asifido, a retired police chief who led the departments in Houston, Austin and Miami.
“Not only is it unprecedented, he is not justified,” said Asifido. “There is no reason to ignite, unlike the political optics that the administration requested to pretend that the crime is out of control and they are the rescuers.”
Trump said he appointed the director of the Drug Enforcement Department, Terry Cole, as head of the Capital Police Department.
Cole will submit a report to Bondi, but it is not clear whether Cole will attend his employees to manage the various departments of the 3500 offices police station.
At its private press conference in the later time, Mayor Morel Boser described Trump’s actions as “disturbing and unprecedented.” The Prosecutor of the capital, Brian Schwab, had also exploded this step and said it was Explore legal optionsBut BowSER acknowledged that Trump has the authority to temporarily seize the police administration.
However, I noticed that “nothing about the organizational chart has changed.”
Trump should notify some members of Congress within 48 hours about the reason for controlling the police and the estimated timeline of federal control, according to the Capital Base Law. The law also indicates that Trump can control the Capital Police for 30 days, unless the Congress is extension.
The streets are immersed
Police experts have noticed by NBC News that the crime is an accurate problem that requires a multi -faceted solution that includes strengthening social services.
“The dumping of the streets of the capital only by law enforcement” and “the seizure of the local police in the capital, it seems that the idea of a half baked is looking for a problem.”
The retired New York police officer said that local police agencies are much better equipped to treat local crime from federal agencies or the National Guard.
“They know the players. They know the streets. They know where violence happens,” said Snyder, an assistant lecturer at John Jae College of Criminal Justice in New York and Director of Criminal Justice and Civil Life Policy at the RTRITE Institute, a research tank in the capital.
Snyder added: “Any assistance should be from federal agents or the National Guard supportive measures,” Snyder added. “They should not come and take over the local police.”
The retired police chief said that the administration will be able to make an impact on the crime by allocating more money for local enforcement, as it was in the migratory repression campaign.
“If the administration wants to make a change at the local level and help to make societies safer, it will be simple as the total investment in the federal budget for local law enforcement to employ, train, equip and keep the best and brightest peace officers,” he said.
Trump’s tendency to invite military personnel to address local turmoil is now firmly. He did this five years ago during the George Floyd protests. Only this summer, the National Guard and the active naval infantry to Los Angeles to help suppress the widespread protests raised by the deployed immigration raids.
But the National Guard does not have the arresting authorities, so there is an end to the extent of their participation in combating crime in the capital
Retired Colonel Jacques Jacobs said that the National Guard forces are usually better trained than active service soldiers to help urban places for things such as controlling crowds.
“But they did not train to do the things that the police are doing, which are patrol, and B, the investigation,” Jacobs, a NBC news analyst, said in an interview. “From my point of view, this is often theater, and nothing is necessarily useful to come from it.”
Questions about January 6
Trump’s seizure of the Capital Police Force came several months after about 1500 people were convicted of crimes, some of whom were violent, in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Daniel Hodges, one of dozens of Metropolitan police officers who were brutal during the riots and the attackers were among those whom Trump pardoned upon his return to office, woke up to the news that Trump generated after she worked in a shift overnight.
“It is a big picture. You will not change anything,” said Hodges.
Hodges, who was in the National Guard for a period of six years, said that members of the National Guard are not coaches in the enforcement of local law. Hodges said that although the capital had law enforcement cases that could be better dealt with, he does not believe that Bondi will have a great vision on how MPD officers were deployed.
“It is terrible, it is disgusting, but it is not a surprise,” Hodges added.