Thousands of National Guard troops are deployed in Washington, D.C. under the president’s crime emergency declaration. Now, there is a plan to add assets: Boats, 60 marked police cars and military vehicles, including humvees and light towers.
“The administration is going the opposite direction that we need to be going,” D.C. Council Public Safety Committee Chair Brooke Pinto said during a hearing Friday.
D.C.’s Interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll said he was unaware of the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to ramp up military assets in the District…