What a great headline (about Trump's takeover of the city police department in Washington DC) | and more on disorder
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Panel 3 from the This Modern World editorial cartoon by Tom Tomorrow, 8/18/2025.
Trump claims the city is ridden with crime ("Inside Week 1 of Trump’s ‘hostile takeover’ of D.C. police," "On Trump’s order, dozens arrested daily in D.C. The details are hidden," and "We asked 604 D.C. residents about Trump’s takeover. Here’s what they said," Washington Post).
Red state governors are getting in on the fun by sending National Guard troops to assist the federal officers that came with Trump's takeover of the police department.
Crime in DC is dropping, as it is across the nation ("Violent crime is falling rapidly across America," Economist) albeit not so great in the places that are persistently high crime areas--which the federal law enforcement officers seem to be avoiding, sticking to places mostly in Northwest DC, but dipping into the Capitol Hill area of Southeast, and into Northeast DC ("D.C. is hard to police. But the federal takeover won’t stop crime," Post).
Note that youth crime is a different story, DC has some real issues that aren't being adequately addressed ("How D.C.'s failure to curb truancy fueled a surge in youth crime," "On the box D.C. court officials repeatedly lost track of teens wearing ankle monitors. The timing was deadly," "Serving ‘dead time’ D.C. teens needed rehabilitation to keep the city safe: They languished in a violent detention center instead," Post).
Most people argue that if Trump really cared, he'd offer resources to cities ("On D.C., Trump has the right idea but the wrong reaction. As usual," Post), a point I made in his first adminstration ("Elijah Cummings, President Trump and Revisiting "The Urban Agenda""). From the Post:
- Instead of diverting hundreds of FBI agents and other federal officers from the vital work they do on national security and complex crimes, Trump could have pushed to give the District the resources it needs to recruit and train enough police officers to get back to full strength after pandemic and budget woes led to a wave of retirements and resignations.
- He could also have pressed Congress to restore funding cuts that led the D.C. Council to trim services this year. Such moves would have been an enduring fix rather than a four-week show.
- Rather than stationing hundreds of National Guard troops to hang out on street corners — a movie we’ve seen before, such as during Trump I, in the tense summer following the killing of George Floyd in 2020 — the president could have advocated funding to address the city’s breathtaking truancy rate.
- Almost a third of D.C. schoolchildren routinely skip school — an improvement over the early post-pandemic years, when truancy rates topped 40 percent, but still an appalling number. Federal funding for counselors and truancy officers would have been a helpful gesture, as would federal expertise from the Education Department.
Paste poster graffiti mocking how federal officers arrested someone for throwing a sandwich at them. The Judge didn't agree with the hard core charges they presented.
The places the officers are congregating in are high profile areas, where sometimes, crime does leak into, because of how small the city is and how easy it is to move to these areas for better "targets." But they are mostly "white" areas, where crime is relatively low, especially violent crime.
Restaurant sales are down as people are avoiding Washington ("‘The city is dead’: D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdown," Post) although Trump states the opposite.
“Dozens of DC small businesses, restaurants, and local shops have closed their doors due to the violent crime that has plagued the city. President Trump’s bold leadership will restore our nation’s capital by creating opportunities for businesses to flourish without fear of criminals looting and destroying their property. President Trump is delivering on his promise to make DC safer, which will inherently make D.C, more prosperous,” spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a statement.
The forces aren't being deployed to the actual high crime areas, in the city pockets in Wards 7 and 8 "East of the River," or impoverished areas of Wards 4, 5, and 6. From the New York Times article, "Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives":
In the Congress Heights neighborhood in the southeast corner of Washington, D.C., where there have been several murders and more than a dozen robberies so far this year, residents have greeted President Trump’s promise of liberation from crime with a mix of skepticism, suspicion and outright derision. It’s not that they don’t believe crime is a problem in the nation’s capital. They know it is.
“If Trump is genuinely concerned about safety of D.C. residents, I would see National Guard in my neighborhood,” said Karen Lake, 62, a lawyer who has lived in Congress Heights since 2017, in the far eastern corner of the diamond-shaped district. “I’m not seeing it, and I don’t expect to see it. I don’t think Trump is bringing in the National Guard to protect Black babies in Southeast.”
They just don’t believe the president cares -- at least not about them. If he did, they asked, why are residents hearing of federal agents roving the whiter areas of 16th Street Northwest but less so in their largely Black neighborhood? Why are National Guard members posing with tourists at the Washington Monument?
This is more about the theater of authoritarianism ("‘Hallmarks of authoritarianism’: Trump banks on loyalists as he wages war on truth," "We’re anti-federal chaos’: Democratic cities prepare for worst after Trump’s tirades against DC and LA," Guardian) and power and intimidation ("Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally," New York Times) in challenging "blue voters" in the cities where Trump loses "bigly" ("Black mayors of cities Trump decries as ‘lawless’ tout significant declines in violent crimes," "Trump’s unprecedented show of force in L.A., Washington is pushing norms, sparking fears," Los Angeles Times).
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Disorder. Living in DC in the bad times of the 80s and 90s made me quite focused on disorder as an element of public safety. I joke that it is a fine line between order and disorder that cities should never cross--e.g., decriminalizing "small" crimes ends up being an invitation to keep behaving anti-socially.
-- "Redefining what public safety means: Community Safety Partnership, Los Angeles"
Commenter charlie has made the point that demand for urban living increased so much c. 2000 because of the noticeable decline in crime.
The Economist article ("Violent crime is falling rapidly across America,") discusse in detail the various people-centered anti-crime efforts in Baltimore, which seem to be having great success
I was reading some great pieces about disorder, triggered by a New York Times article, "What Republicans and Democrats Get Wrong About Crime," and a Paul Krugman interview with Jeff Asher.
In "It's Time to Talk About America's Disorder Problem" Charles Lehman makes the point that social disorder (the idea of "fixing broken windows") is different from crime per se, but people continue to believe crime is high because of very evident social disorder problems like homeless camping, unkempt areas, graffiti, and petty crime
There are links to other resources:
-- "Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis," Criminology and Public Policy
-- Special issue, Policing Practice and Policy (open access), Criminology and Public Policy
-- "The Community’s Credible Threat: Effective policing is a prerequisite for preserving order," City Journal
-- Preventing Public Disorder, Urban Institute
-- Center for Problem Oriented Policing, Arizona State University
Labels: crime, emergency management planning, federal policies and the city, policing, Republican authoritarianism
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/i-live-where-dc-crime-actually-happens-heres-what-trump-is-missing/
I Live Where DC Crime Actually Happens. Here’s What Trump Is Missing.
“Virtually everything the administration is doing is pro-crime,” Elliot Currie, professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine, says of Trump’s federal takeover. “It’s counterproductive and represents another tentacle of the creeping authoritarianism.”
The author of A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America, Currie seemed the right person to reach out to as some 850 new federal officers and National Guardsmen fanned out across the city, with hundreds more on the way from red states eager to join the occupation. He had many “unhappy thoughts” about what was happening in DC. “This is not going to work out well down the road,” he warned. “They’re sowing some bad seeds here—almost as if they’re trying to do it.”
Reducing crime, especially violent crime, Currie told me, requires a lot more work than just sending a bunch of FBI desk-jockeys in tactical gear to wander around the city hassling weed smokers. Consider one of MPD’s most chronic failures: Solving murders. There were 187 murders in DC in 2024, and a lot of those killers are getting away with it.
Last year, the DC homicide clearance rate—the share of cases that end in an arrest or are otherwise solved—was a dismal 60 percent, which, shockingly, is slightly better than the national average of 58 percent. It was even worse in 2023, when the city had a particularly bad surge in murders, and local police cleared barely 50 percent of the cases.
“Some of the mechanisms by which we catch these people in the first place have weakened in recent years,” says Currie. Usually, a crime is solved because “someone talks,” he explains. “But if any sort of trust or rapport between law enforcement and the community breaks down completely— as it has in many places—it makes it much harder to find who did it.”
DC residents have long had a contentious relationship with MPD, and the federal invasion is no doubt making it worse. “What Trump is doing is destroying relationships with cops and people who live here,” Currie says. If the administration really wanted to help lower the murder rate, he notes, it would address the low clearance rates. But to do that, you can’t just trade community work and sensitive policing for “those nine guys standing on the corner looking uncomfortable.”
By starving communities of the violence prevention, behavioral health services, and other investments that young people in particular need to flourish, Currie says, “We’re priming ourselves for another spike in crime.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/i-live-where-dc-crime-actually-happens-heres-what-trump-is-missing/
I Live Where DC Crime Actually Happens. Here’s What Trump Is Missing.
“Virtually everything the administration is doing is pro-crime,” Elliot Currie, professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine, says of Trump’s federal takeover. “It’s counterproductive and represents another tentacle of the creeping authoritarianism.”
The author of A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America, Currie seemed the right person to reach out to as some 850 new federal officers and National Guardsmen fanned out across the city, with hundreds more on the way from red states eager to join the occupation. He had many “unhappy thoughts” about what was happening in DC. “This is not going to work out well down the road,” he warned. “They’re sowing some bad seeds here—almost as if they’re trying to do it.”
Reducing crime, especially violent crime, Currie told me, requires a lot more work than just sending a bunch of FBI desk-jockeys in tactical gear to wander around the city hassling weed smokers. Consider one of MPD’s most chronic failures: Solving murders. There were 187 murders in DC in 2024, and a lot of those killers are getting away with it.
Last year, the DC homicide clearance rate—the share of cases that end in an arrest or are otherwise solved—was a dismal 60 percent, which, shockingly, is slightly better than the national average of 58 percent. It was even worse in 2023, when the city had a particularly bad surge in murders, and local police cleared barely 50 percent of the cases.
“Some of the mechanisms by which we catch these people in the first place have weakened in recent years,” says Currie. Usually, a crime is solved because “someone talks,” he explains. “But if any sort of trust or rapport between law enforcement and the community breaks down completely— as it has in many places—it makes it much harder to find who did it.”
DC residents have long had a contentious relationship with MPD, and the federal invasion is no doubt making it worse. “What Trump is doing is destroying relationships with cops and people who live here,” Currie says. If the administration really wanted to help lower the murder rate, he notes, it would address the low clearance rates. But to do that, you can’t just trade community work and sensitive policing for “those nine guys standing on the corner looking uncomfortable.”
By starving communities of the violence prevention, behavioral health services, and other investments that young people in particular need to flourish, Currie says, “We’re priming ourselves for another spike in crime.”
We Need a Reality Check on Crime, Safety and Transit
Despite common assumptions, traveling by bus, subway or train is far safer than driving. How can transit agencies correct misinformation about the real risks?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/how-transit-agencies-can-fight-the-fear-of-riding-public-transportation
how risks compare between different transportation modes. In fact, transit is far safer than auto travel. In New York City and everywhere else, you are far less likely to be the victim of a crime or an injury-causing crash if you take public transportation. And both crime and crash risks tend to decline in communities where travelers drive less and rely more on non-auto modes.
Of course, driving seems safer than getting on a bus or climbing down into a subway station. Motorists have a sense of control and feel protected in their vehicles. In contrast, transit travel means sharing enclosed spaces with crowds of unpredictable strangers, which naturally invokes anxiety.
News and social media amplify this fear. Major transit crashes and crimes are infrequent, so they receive considerable coverage; since automobile crashes and crimes are hundreds of times more common, they receive far less media attention. In a city like New York — a global media hub that’s also full of transit riders — that message gets boosted further. If a subway passenger is killed or seriously injured in a crash or assault, it often becomes international news.
The transit industry compounds this with messages intended to encourage caution but that unintentionally instill fear. Passengers are bombarded with safety warnings and announcements like, “If you see something, say something,” without counterbalancing information about transit’s outstanding safety record.
There is, of course, a political context to these narratives. Conservatives like Duffy often criticize transit agencies in order to undermine the Democratic leadership of most US cities, and right-wing populists love to portray urban areas as unruly and dangerous. Villainizing the governance of America’s cities has been a core strategy of President Donald Trump for decades, long before he embarked on his current campaign to wrest control of local law enforcement in Washington, DC.
But some progressive groups have added to the problem by advocating for the right to shelter and panhandle in transit facilities, drug and smoking decriminalization, and fare-free buses without considering negative impacts such policies can have on transit passengers. Minor “quality of life” infractions in these public spaces can have major impacts on riders’ comfort levels.
But what about crime risks? Many people have the impression that cities in general and transit vehicles in particular are hotbeds of criminality. They are mostly wrong.
During the last three decades, US crime rates declined significantly, as illustrated below. This occurred for virtually all crime types in virtually all communities, but the declines were particularly large in major cities, greatly reducing the risk disparity that once existed between urban, suburban and rural areas.
The crimes that do occur on buses and trains also tend to be less costly. A typical transit theft involves a phone, wallet or backpack worth a few hundred dollars; a stolen or vandalized vehicle usually costs thousands of dollars to repair or replace.
Addressing transit crime anxiety is important because, when it comes to safety, perception is often reality. Fear discourages responsible passengers from using transit, which makes transit travel seem — and ultimately become — more dangerous.
Trump, GOP portray cities as chaotic dystopias in need of occupation
The president describes cities as “blood-soaked” and “cesspools." His military incursions into D.C. and L.A. culminate growing anti-urban sentiment on the right.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-cities-crime-washington-dc-los-angeles/
When President Donald Trump declared his third presidential candidacy in 2022, he saved his most colorful language for America’s urban areas, bemoaning “the blood-soaked streets of our once-great cities” and adding that “the cities are rotting, and they are indeed cesspools of blood.”
Later in his campaign, Trump called Milwaukee “horrible” and described Washington, D.C., as a “rat-infested, graffiti-infested shithole.” More recently he said, “These cities, it’s like living in hell.”
Other Republicans have seized on similar dystopian urban images.
As Trump ramps up the military presence in Washington — and hints that he may move to take over other cities — his crackdown punctuates a frequent Republican message that American cities embody chaos, lawlessness and immorality, despite widespread recent drops in violent crime. With cities increasingly liberal and rural stretches ever more conservative, Republicans have a growing incentive to attack urban areas as the epitome of all that is wrong with America.
But the rhetoric is untethered to reality, Lucas said: “They are looking to exploit issues for political gain, not to solve them.”
Lee also sees a racial dimension in Trump’s message. Many cities have large Black populations, and the mayors of the cities he has criticized have generally been Black.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/will-seattle-be-the-next-to-have-trump-mandated-troops/
Will Seattle be the next to have Trump-mandated troops?
Editorial cartoon and text.
GOP governors are sending troops to DC. Their states have 10 cities with higher crime rates
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/gop-governors-troops-dc-10-cities-crime-rates
Chicago and Baltimore are next. God help us. I'm not sure what to do. You cling to a bureaucratic mindset that I once had, that facts will convince people and win out. I rejected that years ago- after spending hours and hours on staff reports that nobody reads. I'm just hoping I can make it another decade before I can retire, enjoy some peace and travel, and die a quick death that doesn't empty all my accounts and force me on Medicaid. Godspeed all.
Trump, GOP vow to fix DC. Residents would prefer to run their city themselves.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/08/washington-dc-push-back-gop-attacks/82789086007/
Trump threatens to send National Guard troops to Baltimore
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/24/trump-baltimore-troops-wes-moore/
Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/23/trump-chicago-military-national-guard/
Trump seeks funding to clean up D.C. in latest effort to control city
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-seeks-2-billion-clean-up-dc-latest-effort-control-city-affairs/
In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/us/politics/trump-dc-crime-takeover-federal-court.html
After Trump’s Threat to Send National Guard to Chicago, Democrats Push Back
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/us/politics/trump-national-guard-chicago-crime.html
What’s Life Like in Washington, D.C., During Trump’s Takeover?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/whats-life-like-in-washington-dc-during-trumps-takeover
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/us/politics/crime-republican-states.html
Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington
The same questions could be asked of other Republican governors like Greg Abbott in Texas, Mike DeWine in Ohio and Mike Kehoe in Missouri, since cities under their purview all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. Yet no Republican governor has asked for federal intervention.
Red-state governors sending their National Guard troops to blue-state cities is just another example of the political divide in the country that has become the standard. It is also another example of Republicans going out of the way to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
Republican governors did not want to answer why they were willing to send their National Guard troops to Washington while not inviting the same attention to their cities.
Jeffrey A. Butts, executive director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, noted that even in Washington, federal resources are not actually being targeted where they would make the most difference, in high-crime neighborhoods far from the photogenic monuments and government buildings where National Guard troops are patrolling.
“If you accept the premise that it is OK to use military resources in the name of securing public safety, which is very debatable and I think historically should be rejected, they would be in the communities with the highest rates of gun violence,” Mr. Butts said.
“They’re not doing it to improve public safety,” he continued. “It’s designed to humiliate political opponents.”
... “Reducing crime is a team sport,” he said. “Mayors and governors would appreciate sustained support and sustained collaboration from their federal partners. They always have and they always will.”
Hmm, I wonder if running for a 4th term is off the table.
DC mayor Bowser signs order aligning city with Trump’s military occupation
Order sets rules for federal forces as locals stage noise protests, block indictments and demand home rule
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/washington-dc-mayor-trump-national-guard
On Wednesday, Bowser pushed back against accusations that she’s willing to continue Trump’s federal takeover.
“I want the message to be clear to the Congress, we have a framework to request or use federal resources in our city,” Bowser told reporters during a press conference. “We don’t need a presidential emergency.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/03/dc-police-national-guard-trump-neighborhoods/
Where there’s no sign of the National Guard in D.C.
In Southeast Washington, residents aren’t seeing Trump’s federal force
“We don’t get much of nothing over here,” said Jenkins, 80, a retired mechanic who has owned his house in Congress Heights for 46 years.
“Nothing” includes no sign of the National Guard members Trump has brought in from red states to eradicate the supposed “complete and total lawlessness” that he ascribes to the city.
Resistance to Trump’s D.C. crackdown is taking many forms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/09/06/trump-dc-federal-takeover-resistance-pushback/
While residents want crime and lawless behavior to be addressed in the city, they are overwhelmingly critical of the Trump administration’s approach, according to a Washington Post poll. Eighty percent of D.C. residents oppose Trump’s executive order to federalize law enforcement in the city, with about 7 in 10 opposing it “strongly.”
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Thousands march in D.C. against Trump’s law enforcement takeover
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/09/06/we-are-all-dc-march/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/opinion/trump-chicago-national-guard.html
Chicago Could Be a Powder Keg
I have studied democracies’ military occupations of regions within their national borders, focusing on cases that existed in or started after 1980: Britain and Northern Ireland, Spain and the Basques and others. These occupations occurred for a range of reasons, and often started out suppressing violence, but they ended up provoking or exacerbating widespread civil unrest, political violence and terrorism.
There are, of course, many ways in which a de facto military occupation of Chicago would differ from these cases, but the general lessons I’ve learned remain applicable: Occupying forces rarely, if ever, call their activities an occupation, but they are widely perceived as such by the local population. Occupation often lasts longer than expected and leads to involvement beyond its original stated purpose. Protests happen. Suppression of protests happens. The occupying forces must withdraw in disgrace or double down in hopes of pacifying the uprising. Things usually escalate.
This kind of exercise of military force, regardless of the legitimacy of its aims, inevitably intrudes on the political rights and economic livelihoods of ordinary people. Even if an occupation starts out with apparent success, it typically leads to chaos and generates defiance in the local community.
.... Suppressing crime more broadly in a lasting way would, of course, require even more resources and time and be similarly invasive. The longer federal forces stay and the more expansive their operations, the more the local community will perceive a loss of political power to determine its future. This perception would be exacerbated in Chicago because of the approaching state elections in 2026, which many perceive Mr. Trump as trying to influence through these actions. Note, for example, that Mr. Trump spoke of the need to “liberate” Chicago in a fund-raising email on Wednesday.
Many Cities Say Yes to Federal Police Help, but No to ‘Occupation’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/federal-law-enforcement-national-guard-policing.html
Some mayors and police chiefs said they would welcome more traditional law enforcement cooperation with federal agents, but see the National Guard as a step too far.
Mayor Quinton Lucas, a Democrat, bristled at the suggestion that local officials were to blame for his city’s spike in crime. And with distrust of law enforcement at a high after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that year, he worried about how federal law enforcement officers would conduct themselves on the ground.
Yet over the next few months, Mayor Lucas came to endorse parts of the federal mission, named Operation Legend after a 4-year-old Kansas City boy who had been killed by a wayward bullet as he slept.
Working with the local police, federal agents helped track down people with open felony warrants, recovered illegal guns and charged some suspects with federal crimes that can carry stiffer penalties than those available under state law. Now, as Mr. Trump renews his promise to tackle crime in American cities, Mayor Lucas says he could imagine welcoming the help — if it came with a clear strategy.
... But those same leaders said they would welcome more of the aid that federal agents routinely provide at the local level in the fight against crime — tracing guns, conducting surveillance, capturing fugitives and serving on task forces with local agencies to root out terrorism, human trafficking and drug rings.
There might even be a place for the National Guard if commanders are willing to collaborate with local law enforcement, said Chief Harold Medina of the Albuquerque Police Department. In March, Chief Medina sent a message to New Mexico’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, requesting such help. He said the city was bedeviled by gun violence, fentanyl and a shortage of police officers.
As a result, about 90 Guard soldiers have been detailed to Albuquerque to watch security cameras, operate drones, help keep the public away from SWAT operations and deliver arrest paperwork to prosecutors on time. Their work has freed up local officers to spend thousands more hours on investigations, arrests and patrols.
Many local leaders worry that the surge of federal agents Mr. Trump is now proposing could come without that kind of planning, and with additional priorities that are in conflict with the desires of cities and their residents — such as deporting people residing in the country illegally.
After its rollout in Kansas City, Operation Legend was brought to eight more cities, where the reception by local leaders ranged from lukewarm to caustic. Many feared a repeat of the crackdown on street protesters in Portland, Ore., by federal agents in unmarked vans, which had drawn widespread public opposition. In Chicago, the mayor at the time, Lori Lightfoot, opposed the operation in a letter in which she decried the use of “secret federal agents” who “do not know Chicago” and who would operate outside the chain of command.
Experts say that when it comes to law enforcement, more is not always better. Morgan Williams Jr., an economist, was a co-author of a landmark paper that found that adding more police officers resulted in decreases in homicides and other major crimes. But he emphasized that the finding did not apply to outside help. “The National Guard is not a substitute for local law enforcement,” he said.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28202/w28202.pdf
POLICE FORCE SIZE AND CIVILIAN RACE
We report the first empirical estimate of the race-specific effects of larger police forces in the
United States. Each additional police officer abates approximately 0.1 homicides. In per capita
terms, effects are twice as large for Black versus white victims. At the same time, larger police
forces make more arrests for low-level “quality-of-life” offenses, with effects that imply a
disproportionate burden for Black Americans. Notably, cities with large Black populations do not
share equally in the benefits of investments in police manpower. Our results provide novel
empirical support for the popular narrative that Black communities are simultaneously over and
under-policed.
Trump’s military takeover of D.C. is even more appalling when you see it up close and in person
If nothing else, the president's actions make the stalled case for D.C. statehood even more imperative.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-national-guard-amtrak-union-station-lincoln-memorial-20250828.html
Why isn’t D.C. a state? Trump’s takeover reignites calls for statehood.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/12/dc-statehood-trump-federal-takeover-explained/
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