By declaring a hostile takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its limited, temporary authority under the Home Rule Act, infringing on the District’s right to self-governance and putting the safety of DC residents and visitors at…

By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law.

Let us be clear about what the law requires during a Presidential declared emergency: it requires the mayor of Washington, DC to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for federal purposes at the request of the…

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…

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.

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

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…

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.

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…

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing about our organizational chart has changed.

I will honor the internal review process of the FBI.