{"id":3897,"date":"2025-08-12T07:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/the-legality-of-trumps-d-c-takeover-as-statistics-show-decline-in-crime\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:17:55","slug":"the-legality-of-trumps-d-c-takeover-as-statistics-show-decline-in-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/the-legality-of-trumps-d-c-takeover-as-statistics-show-decline-in-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"The legality of Trump&#8217;s D.C. takeover as statistics show decline in crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented move, President Trump has taken over Washington, D.C.&#8217;s police department and activated its National Guard. The federal takeover invokes rare, but legal, presidential authorities, but local officials say he\u2019s wrong to say that crime has spiraled out of control. Amna Nawaz discussed the legality behind this action and what this means with Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented move, President Trump has taken over Washington, D.C.&#8217;s police department and activated its National Guard. The federal takeover invokes rare, but legal, presidential authorities, but local officials say he\u2019s wrong to say that crime has spiraled out of control. Amna Nawaz discussed the legality behind this action and what this means with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}