The number of federal troops descending on Washington, D.C., is set to increase as President Donald Trump pushes to extend the city’s federal takeover despite crime declining in recent years. Trump announced Monday he was placing the D.

He took command of the police department and deployed the National Guard under laws and Constitutional powers that give the federal government more sway over the nation’s capital than other cities. Its historically majority Black population wasn’t electing its own city council and mayor until 1973,