The Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation's capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington's “emergency police commissioner" with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that increases national control over the city as part of the

Protesters in Washington, D.C., push back against President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown and troop deployment.

President Trump is the first president to use a declared emergency to wrest control of Washington, D.C.’s police force.