President Donald Trump posted a lengthy explanation on social media Wednesday, explaining why the federal government is assuming control over Washington, D.C.’s security.

“Washington, D.C., has one of the Highest Rates of Crime in the World, more than many of the most violent Third World Countries. The City’s Homicide Rate is higher than places notorious for their violence, such as Mexico City, Bogota, Islamabad, and Addis Ababa — Almost ten times higher than Fallujah, Iraq. If D.C. were a State, it would have the highest Homicide Rate of any State in America,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Trump announced Monday that Washington, D.C.’s police would be put under federal control. He invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act in an executive order to declare a “crime emergency” so his administration could take over the city’s police force and signed a directive for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to activate the National Guard.

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