"With crime trends going down in recent years, I'm not sure there is that emergency," ArentFox Schiff partner David Grosso said of President Donald Trump's executive order seizing control of the District of Columbia's police force under a declared crime emergency.

The Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation's capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington's “emergency police commissioner" with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that increases national control over the city as part of the

The move amounts to a sweeping reversal of "sanctuary" policies in the nation's capital, allowing the Metropolitan Police Department, for the time being, to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.