As a former police officer, I’ve seen firsthand how both crime and criminals have changed since my days on the beat. Today, drugs, untreated mental illness, and a wholesale devaluing of human life drive the violence we see in our cities.

But these social pathologies are symptoms of something deeper.

President Donald Trump has once again drawn the ire of the left and the legacy media for exercising his statutory authority to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department in response to Washington, D.C.’s dangerously high crime rate.

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