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In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests

A single afternoon in court illustrated the new ways in which laws are being enforced after President Trump’s takeover of the city’s police.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

Law enforcement officials searching a car after a traffic stop in Washington last week. President Donald Trump has cast his crackdown on crime as a success, and suggested on Friday that it was a blueprint he would seek to apply to other cities, including Chicago.
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