The Silent Majority Is Applauding
© Kenny Eliason
The silent majority in Washington, D.C., and across our nation is applauding. Even one crime is one crime too many.
On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump, invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act passed by the United States Congress, declared a "crime emergency in the District of Columbia" and ordered the deployment of 800 National Guard troops, 200 of whom are earmarked to assist D.C. law enforcement, to the city. The president named Attorney General Pam Bondi and Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Terry Cole to work with the Metropolitan Police Department.
The D.C. Police Union is cheering. It cited major management and staffing shortages, including over 800 vacancies in the 3,100-officer department. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, an unapologetic law-and-order mayor, questioned the move as "unsettling and unprecedented," underscoring her support for D.C. statehood.
Trump assailed the nation's capital as "one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world." He proclaimed it was D.C.'s "Liberation Day" from "crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor." He insinuated that juveniles were "randomly attacking" citizens and called for laws to allow minors as young as 14 to be prosecuted as adults and punished by unforgiving sentences.
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