FBI Director Kash Patel said he’s working with a team of law enforcement agencies to utilize “simplicity in law enforcement” to manage what President Donald Trump announced was the return of “public safety” to Washington, D.C.
Trump on Monday said he was putting federal agencies in charge of the D.C. police department and that he was additionally ordering the deployment of National Guard troops to the city to assist in bringing crime under control.
Patel told reporters at the White House that he will be using an approach in D.C. similar to what he helped develop in Virginia: a joint and cooperative venture. “And what are we going to bring to D.C.? We stood up a task force out in my Northern Virginia field office and we said, Let’s let good cops be cops. Let’s get them the intelligence and what they need.”
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