Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia

Reporting cited here

1. documented

   On 2025-08-11, Donald Trump declared emergency conditions in the District of Columbia and directed the mayor to provide Metropolitan Police Department services for federal purposes under section 740 of the Home Rule Act.

   Operative text of the cited action

   D.C. emergency shifted local policing under a time-limited federal command mechanism · Emergency command used a time-limited Home Rule Act mechanism; related deployments continued separately.

2. documented
   Superseded · open corrected record

   On 2025-08-11, Donald Trump declared emergency conditions in the District of Columbia and directed the mayor to provide Metropolitan Police Department services for federal purposes under section 740 of the Home Rule Act.

   Operative text of the cited action

   Trump declared a D.C. crime emergency and asserted federal control over local policing · superseded evidence record