Donald Trump\u2019s decision to federalize Washington, D.C., turned a long-simmering anxiety into open confrontation.<\/p>\n
On paper, the results look impressive: robberies and<\/p>\n
car break-ins down by more than 40 percent, overall violent crime dropping double digits in a single week.<\/p>\n
For some residents, that means finally walking home at night without scanning every shadow,<\/p>\n
after years of headlines and personal horror stories that never matched the \u201ccrime is down\u201d talking points.<\/p>\n
But the cost of those gains is already tearing the city apart. Federal agents are now<\/p>\n
embedded with local police, rolling through neighborhoods in unmarked cars,<\/p>\n
turning routine stops into immigration dragnets. ICE arrests have spiked to more than ten times their usual rate,<\/p>\n
transforming a crime crackdown into a sweeping test of power and identity.<\/p>\n
In living rooms, newsrooms, and city blocks, Washington is being forced to decide what \u201csafety\u201d really means\u2014and who has to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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