The president’s authority to make demands of local police expires on Wednesday night, but the most visible federal interventions in the city will remain for now.
The president’s authority to make demands of local police expires on Wednesday night, but the most visible federal interventions in the city will remain for now.
Crime has fallen since federal agents started policing the streets of Washington in large numbers. Court records show that they have been involved in about a third of arrests that resulted in prosecution, many of them for minor offenses.
Many of the arrests in Washington, D.C., involving federal agents have been for low-level offenses. A man was taken into custody in the Columbia Heights neighborhood Aug. 22 on a charge of smoking marijuana in public.
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