President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington D.C. is working, says former Capitol police chief Steven Sund.

“This is a force multiplier for the police department, [it] allows the police to focus on more serious issues while using the men and women of the National Guard to help support it,” Sund told Newsmax’s “National Report” Monday.

“And to give you an idea of just how effective it’s been, just in the first week, Washington, D.C., a city that had 497 carjackings in 2024 last week since this began, had one. Just one. So that’s a significant reduction. The previous three weeks, there was, I think, at least 12.

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