Reports on the investigation surfaced a day after Trump suggested the MPD is being investigated over its allegedly fake crime data.

The president announced his plans during an interview with conservative radio host Todd Starnes on Thursday, Aug. 21, less than two weeks after he announced a federal takeover of Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and deployed National Guard troops in a bid to reduce crime.

The order by a federal official to replace the police chief of the Metropolitan Police Department on an "emergency" basis has been deemed unlawful by D.C.'s AG.

After a decade of threatening to take over the deeply Democratic District of Columbia, President Donald Trump ... he had signed orders and letters to place the Washington Metropolitan Police Department under his control by invoking Section 740 of the ...

The Trump administration says it has arrested more than 700 people in Washington, D.C., in its mission to crack down on crime. Experts say it's difficult to draw conclusions from that about public safety.

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith will remain in control of the Metropolitan Police Department after D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Friday challenging what he called an unlawful attempt by the federal government to seize control of the city’s police force.

The District of Columbia's attorney general sued Donald Trump on Friday in a bid to impede his attempted takeover of Washington's police force, escalating a power struggle between the Republican U.S.

U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (VA-8), Steny Hoyer (MD-5), Jamie Raskin (MD-8), Jennifer McClellan (VA-4), Glenn Ivey (MD-4), Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10), Sarah Elfreth (MD-3), Eugene Vindman (VA-7), and April McClain Delaney (MD-6) today issued the following statement on President Trump’s announcement that he would temporarily federalize the Washington D.

House and Senate Democrats on Friday introduced legislation that would end the Trump administration’s control of Washington’s police department, part of an escalating effort to fight President Trump’s takeover of the nation’s capital.

The ACLU-D.C. is raising concerns over two controversial moves in Washington, D.C. - a new order from the Metropolitan Police Department to cooperate with ICE and President Trump's takeover of the city's police force - which they argue threaten community safety and democratic governance.