Today’s notice: What comes next for D.C. and the cities watching the situation there closely. The politics of all this are emerging, and they’re surprising. Breaking the Merit Systems Protection Board. And: You truly gotta hand it to the Republicans still hosting in-person town halls.
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Uncharted territory: “This is a situation without standard operating procedures,” a D.C. official who works in public safety told NOTUS’ John T. Seward of Donald Trump’s historic move to federalize the District’s police force and activate the National Guard to combat local crime and homelessness.
What changes? At a press conference Monday, Mayor Muriel Bowser suggested the Metropolitan Police Department would operate as it has. “Nothing about our organizational chart has changed,” she said. One big change, of course, is that the org chart will now lead to AG Pam Bondi. What that means for day-to-day policing is a huge question mark.
Trump’s vision for MPD: “They fight back until you knock the hell out of them, because it’s the only language they understand,” he said of how police would respond in the District.