Muriel Bowser: “I appeal to this Senate to end the ongoing systemic injustice faced by the growing population in D.C. and vote for…”

We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD [the Metropolitan Police Department] has been able to do in this city.

What got us there was imprudent decisions fiscally, so we had to work out of that.

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.

The difference between this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents an 87% reduction in carjackings.