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https://wapo.st/4pouJqp
“… The Washington Post gathered more than a thousand charging documents from local and federal courts, mapped the incidents and examined how they played out. The documents portray an expanded law enforcement presence that considered no crime too small while hunting for guns and employing tactics that have sparked community opposition in the past.
More than a third of the 1,273 arrests examined by The Post from the first four weeks of
Trump’s crackdown in D.C. involved federal law enforcement, a figure that doesn’t include arrests made by immigration officers.
Those arrests occurred in all eight city wards, but were concentrated in the city’s poorest, least White and most crime-riddled neighborhoods.
…Of the 470 arrests where federal officers were present:
- Weapons charges were the most common, primarily illegal gun possession. One in 4 cases involved gun charges. Officers found firearms in cars, waistbands and a child’s backpack.
- About 1 in 7 cases accused people of having open containers of alcohol, in cars or parks or curbside.
- Almost two dozen cases involved public consumption of marijuana — possession of which, in small quantities, is legal in D.C.
- One in 8 cases involved people accused of assaulting a police officer or resisting arrest. Most involved other charges, but on 20 occasions, assaulting or resisting was the sole charge — including people who have screamed at, spat on and, in one viral case, hurled a sandwich at a federal officer.
- One in 12 arrests included solely minor charges, such as using marijuana in public, fare evasion and traffic offenses like driving without a valid license.
- Those arrested were overwhelmingly young, Black men. Black men have made up the majority of D.C. police arrests for years.
- The quarter of the D.C. census tracts with the highest violent crime rates were the site of nearly half of arrests, while the quarter with the lowest rates had 11 percent.
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