Trump doesn’t have the power to take over police departments in other cities apart from Washington
Donald Trump threatened to send active-duty military personnel into America’s third-largest city to quell what he described as out-of-control crime at the hands of a liberal mayor and Democratic-run city and state governments.
Speaking in the Oval Office Friday to reporters, Trump was boasting of positive crime numbers in the District of Columbia since he seized control of the capital’s police department earlier this month.
He claimed the national guard soldiers tasked with patrolling some of Washington had been doing an “incredible job working with the police” and said his solution for the capital — uniformed soldiers and roving patrols of federal agents who have largely been conducting immigration arrests of delivery drivers according to government statistics — would soon be sent to “another location” to “make it safe.”
If every military / police said to Trump: go fuck yourself, we’re not doing this to our fellow countrymen, there wouldn’t be a problem.
Stop taking orders from chief bone spur, head of the raping young children battalion.
The set of people that are police is entirely contained within the set of people that support Trump. You’re already seeing this with local police helping ICE however they can.
Remember that about a third of the country enthusiastically supports Trump and another third is either on the fence or noncommittal. He’s not exactly lacking for ideologically compliant manpower.
Harlan Coben, The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)