President Trump said he would take over Washington, D.C.'s police force and deploy National Guard troops to fight crime and car thefts.

President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department will temporarily reduce the district’s autonomy. Trump can more easily take over the Metropolitan Police Department than he can suspend the district’s home rule because ending home rule requires congressional action.

When President Trump announced Monday that he was bringing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control in order to crack down on what he described as “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor” in the nation’s capital,