Pam Bondi names DEA administrator as ’emergency’ DC police chief
Washington DC suits the Federal government for seizing the police force after the US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi calls it the “Emergency Police Commissioner” of the region as the Chairman of the Drug Application Administration (DEA).
Brian Schwalb, the Chief Public Prosecutor of the City, wrote on X in an illegal way of the US government’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) illegally and “abuse of temporary, limited authority in accordance with the law”.
The case asks a judge to invalidate Bondi’s order and stop his head with “taking any command position in MPD”.
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would use federal law enforcement officers to reduce the crime in Washington.
Since then, he sent hundreds of national guards and other federal agents to clean homeless camps, run control points and support other law enforcement officers, and referred to the law of the 1970s, which allowed MPD to use it for “federal purposes” for “necessary and appropriate”.
On Thursday, Bondi, Bondi, wrote in the order that Pamela Smith, the local police chief of DEA manager Terry Cole, will undertake “all his powers and duties”. According to the order, “must get approval from the Commissioner Cole before publishing another directive to MPD”.
Almost, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Schwalb came back, saying that the order was “illegal” and saying Smith did not have to follow him.
Over the last few days, armored vehicles have been lined up near monuments and other tourist places, and drivers have been stopped in a popular nightlife corridor. Authorities, 800 soldiers to be deployed in the region and the FBI, such as 500 federal law enforcement force is expected to be deployed, he said.
Bowser, a democrat, said that there was no emergency and that Trump’s “unnecessary and unprecedented” movement was “an authoritarian thrust”.
Speaking at Fox News on Thursday to announce Cole’s appointment, Bondi said that federal officers had 156 arrests and seized 27 firearms this week.
Trump said the crime is worsening in Washington DC, but the analysis by BBC Verify shows a different tendency.
According to the figures published by the DC police, severe crimes fell in 2023 and reached their lowest levels in 2024 in 2024.
The pre -data for 2025 continues to fall.
According to the police department, the crime of violence fell 26% this year and the robbery fell 28%.
