Trump Admin takes over D.C. Policing

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FWIW, New Orleans is following similar trends of decreasing crime rates in cities across the nation.

Murder rate has a 22% drop from 2024. And 2024 was a 35% drop from 2023. The rate is near the 50-year low for the city.
Personal crime overall is -17% yoy. Property crime overall is -21% yoy.

Dumb, contrived publicity stunt by clown-in-chief.
 
ChileG said:
A court ruled it was illegal.
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Ok, if they were used for domestic law enforcement, yes, that is illegal.
ChileG said:
But forget LA for the moment. If Trump did send in the National Guard to Chicago without the governor’s consent, do you agree that would be illegal? If so, what word would you use?
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I would call it illegal, yes. Unconstitutional? Yes. Probably not declaring war or "invasion".
 
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“… The latest rejection, known as a no true bill, came Tuesday, when U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office informed a judge grand jurors had declined to indict D.C. attorney Paul Bryant on multiple felonies. Prosecutors had charged Bryant, a West Point and Columbia Law School grad, with assaulting and threatening to kill members of the National Guard who were patrolling a busy nightlife corridor as part of the federal surge. Bryant now faces two misdemeanors – a significant step down from the 20-year felony prosecutors had sought.

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The wave of grand jury rejections has drawn criticism from defense attorneys and judges in D.C. who’ve seen prosecutors over the last month charge multiple defendants with serious felonies only to move to dismiss them weeks later. Several defendants were held without bond at the request of the government – only to see the case downgraded to a misdemeanor offense after a grand jury declined to indict.

One defendant accused of threatening the president, Edward Dana, spent a week at the D.C. Jail before he was granted release over prosecutors' objection. Pirro's office ultimately moved to dismiss his federal case when a grand jury declined to indict him. Dana now faces four misdemeanor vandalism and threats charges in D.C. Superior Court.

The treatment of Dana, who has described himself as a “person with disabilities,” sparked outrage from Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, one of four magistrates who signs off on arrest warrants and handles various pretrial hearings, including detention requests, for D.C.’s federal court. Faruqui asked why Pirro’s office wasn’t, out of “sheer embarrassment and shame,” asking him to expunge the record of Dana’s arrest and suggested prosecutors owed him an apology.

“I don’t know when it became ‘you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet,’” Faruqui said. “This is not an egg. This is a human being.”

Faruqui’s comments drew the ire of Pirro … In a statement to WUSA9 in August, Pirro accused grand jurors of becoming “politicized.” During an interview with her former employer last month, Pirro told Fox News D.C. residents had become “so used to crime” that they don’t care if laws are being violated. …”
 
nycfan said:


Memphis eh?
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“I woulda preferred going to Chicago. I had a man in a big the head of a big big railroad they’re doing a merger and he came to see me all that stuff and I asked him cause it’s you know one of the largest train companies maybe the largest so you can figure out who it is OK? Union Pacific. And he was in my office and he saw started off 45 years ago with the railroad so that’s a great story [sir voice] Sir, I’m a railroader[/end sir voice] that’s the kinda guy that should run it as opposed to a Wall Street guy who’d destroys the railroad but he’s good financially, right? And he was a very impressive guy.

And I said so what do you think, where should we go next as a city cause we’ll do one two three next then we’ll do a few at a time but we’re we’re going to straighten out the crime in these cities. He said ‘Sir Memphis would be good’ because he’s on the board of FedEx he said ‘when I walk one block to my hotel they won’t allow me to do it they put me in an armored vehicle with bullet-proof glass to take me one block.’ He said it’s the so terrible. I said let me ask you a question, so we’re going to Memphis, I’m just announcing that now straighten that out [Ainsley: National Guard?] [Trump nods] National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way we’ll bring in the military too if we need it. But National Guard, but Memphis is uhh look it’s a great music city you know it’s home of Elvis and everything else.”
 


“You know the people in DC are sooo happy they bring coffee [mumble] the National Guard.”
 
nycfan said:
“I woulda preferred going to Chicago. I had a man in a big the head of a big big railroad they’re doing a merger and he came to see me all that stuff and I asked him cause it’s you know one of the largest train companies maybe the largest so you can figure out who it is OK? Union Pacific. And he was in my office and he saw started off 45 years ago with the railroad so that’s a great story [sir voice] Sir, I’m a railroader[/end sir voice] that’s the kinda guy that should run it as opposed to a Wall Street guy who’d destroys the railroad but he’s good financially, right? And he was a very impressive guy.

And I said so what do you think, where should we go next as a city cause we’ll do one two three next then we’ll do a few at a time but we’re we’re going to straighten out the crime in these cities. He said ‘Sir Memphis would be good’ because he’s on the board of FedEx he said ‘when I walk one block to my hotel they won’t allow me to do it they put me in an armored vehicle with bullet-proof glass to take me one block.’ He said it’s the so terrible. I said let me ask you a question, so we’re going to Memphis, I’m just announcing that now straighten that out [Ainsley: National Guard?] [Trump nods] National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way we’ll bring in the military too if we need it. But National Guard, but Memphis is uhh look it’s a great music city you know it’s home of Elvis and everything else.”
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Wouldn't shock me if Memphians really do want federal help. That city has struggled for a LONG time.
 


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Hostile greeters? [“but you know they have professional agitators”]
 
nycfan said:
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“… “New Orleans is in really bad shape, and the governor wants us to go in,” Trump said on Fox. He claimed as well, “I can fix that up in a week and a half.”

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The Pentagon’s plan, which has not been previously reported, calls for the Louisiana mobilization to last until Sept. 30, 2026 — far longer than the president’s timeline, if an announcement is imminent. The materials reviewed by The Washington Post do not identify a start date….”

They have decided for now that they need an invitation to proceed (though they did not think that was the case in Los Angeles — I guess for now they’ve determined they will need some pretext to override the wishes of a governor of a state).
 
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