President Donald Trump announced last week that Washington D.C.'s police would be put under federal control and National Guard troops have since been deployed after a public safety emergency. For the first time in years, D.C. has gone seven days with a homicide and carjackings have decreased 83%, according to the National Police Association.
Chad Wolf, the former acting secretary of Homeland Security, told Newsmax on Thursday that Trump "is not afraid to take hard challenges head on and solve them.
"This is what leadership looks like under President Trump," Wolf said during an appearance on "Wake Up America." "And whether it's at the border, whether it's in D.C. or around the country, I think the president is not afraid to take hard challenges head on and to solve them.
"He doesn't like admiring a problem. He doesn't like looking at it. He likes actually fixing things. And so when he looks around D.C. and he sees the out-of-control crime, unsafe to be in certain neighborhoods there, he's saying, 'Enough is enough. Let's fix this. Let's be proud about our capital. Let's be proud about D.C.'"
Wolf, who serves as executive vice president at the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute, said the latest crime numbers speaking for themselves. "And so he's surging law enforcement resources in there. And you can look at all the numbers from robberies to carjackings. They've all diminished since he has surged these law enforcement units into D.C.
"So what that tells you is that law enforcement, when properly deployed and allowed to do their job, it actually does work. It actually does bring down crime," he added.
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