‘DC Crime Emergency’? Experts Question Trump’s Order to Federalize Police Force in Washington
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman
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Wendy Chun-Hoon, president and executive director of the Center for Law and Social Policy, said crime statistics do not support Trump’s narrative of a local crime emergency.
“This is a fabricated emergency just like we saw in L.A.,” Chun-Hoon said Wednesday in an interview, referring to the Trump administration’s deployment of about 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to the Los Angeles area in June to suppress ongoing demonstrations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.
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