For years, the capital’s police force has faced a scarcity of cops due to Democratic-championed policies driving out officers in droves.

D.C. Police Union chairman Gregg Pemberton offered his support to President Donald Trump's law enforcement takeover cracking down on crime in a Washington Post op-ed.

President Donald Trump met with police and military in D.C., on Thursday to oversee the surge in federal law enforcement as he talks about expanding to other cities.

The irony of the situation here is that Justin was somebody that was hired by the government to keep the peace, and he was murdered by the police who saw a Black man in a vehicle,” said an attorney representing his mother.

Nearly 2,000 National Guard troops have now been deployed to join President Donald Trump's crackdown on Washington, DC.

At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data.

CNN's Scott Jennings defends the federal takeover of Washington DC's police: ABBY PHILLIP: There's no denying D.C.'s got a crime problem, but should these governors be sending troops from their states where they have crime problems to D.

At least one high-ranking officer has been suspended so far over the disturbing allegations, which the DC Police Union has said effectively reflect standard operating procedure.