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I think they regard it as a success to have more presence and take more guns off the street, and we do too.

We all need to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city, to protect our autonomy, to protect our home rule, and get to the other side of this guy and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to…

We have the best in the business in MPD Chief Pamela Smith to lead that effort and to make sure that the men and women who are coming from federal law enforcement are being well-used and that if there’s National Guard here, they’re being…

What I’m focused on is the federal surge and how to make the most of the additional officer support that we have.

My expectation, though it can change, is that they will deploy the Guard on federal properties — that includes parks, monuments, federal buildings.

This is a time where community needs to jump in and we all need to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our Home Rule, and get to the other side of this guy, and make sure we…

We don’t live in a dirty city. We are not 700,000 scumbags and punks. And we don’t have neighborhoods that should be bulldozed.

In this moment, steps must be taken to respond to the authoritarian measures being considered in certain states and now so brazenly taken in Texas.

And while this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can’t say that, given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised.

I don’t want to minimize what was said and I don’t want to minimize the intrusion on our autonomy.

Nothing about our organizational chart has changed.

Violent crime in the District is at the lowest rates we’ve seen in 30 years.

We’re not satisfied. We haven’t taken our foot off the gas, and we continue to look for ways to make our city safer.

If the priority is to show force in an American city, we know he can do that here. But it won’t be because there’s a spike in crime.

All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.

I will honor the internal review process of the FBI.

I haven’t heard that.

I would agree that climate is the biggest risk.