Roughly 8 in 10​​ Washington, DC, residents oppose President Donald Trump ordering the federal government to take control of the city’s police department as well as his deployment of the National Guard and FBI to patrol the city,

An outspoken Democrat lawmaker had choice words for President Donald Trump 's decision to take over Washington, D.C.'s police force.

The number of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., increased again on Tuesday as a sixth Republican-led state sent some of its soldiers to the nation's capital as part of the president's activation to fight what he claims is rising crime in the city.

Three more Republican governors authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington on Monday, part of President Donald Trump’s escalating show of force that he says is designed to crack down on crime and boost immigration enforcement in the nation’s capital.

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, D.C., have falsified crime data.

Donald Trump pushed a conspiracy theory about crime statistics in the nation's capital. Predictably, a Justice Department investigation soon followed.