WASHINGTON — After sources told WUSA9 Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Pamela Smith were blindsided by the president taking over D.C.'s police force on Monday, the two are now publicly showing ...

Washington, D.C.’s juvenile justice system contains structural gaps and outdated statutes that legal and policy experts say ...

The U.S. attorney for D.C. said the issue is that those who commit violent crimes have no reason to fear law enforcement.

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And in the late 1980s and 1990s, D.C. claimed the title of “murder capital” of the U.S. as homicide rates hit record rates ...

Trump exaggerates crime stats, but The Washington Post found that 50% of D.C. residents view crime as an “extremely serious” ...

Republican strategist Doug Heye snapped back at former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Karen Finney on Tuesday after she asked ...

Trump's federalization of the D.C. police is spurning outrage among Democrats and local activists claiming this is another ...

While DC becomes a staging ground, Republican-led jurisdictions with objectively higher crime rates remain untouched.

If President Trump deploys troops to other American cities, experts say it would be a clear departure from founding ...

Republicans are embracing President Trump’s bare-knuckled fight with Washington, D.C., as a winning issue for the embattled president and say that Trump will use federal funding for the city as ...