Brian Schwalb, D.C. Attorney General, has filed a lawsuit to prevent the federal takeover of the police department.

Trump had vowed to bring order to a place that he said was beset by “total lawlessness,” and by “bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor.”

Justice Department data, however, showed violent crime in 2024 hit a 30-year low in Washington, a self-governing federal district under the jurisdiction of Congress.