WASHINGTON (August 11, 2025)- During a press conference Monday, the White House announced that the D.C police department would be put under federal control and the National Guard would be deployed to control crime in the district. This comes after The White House’s recent vow to combat carjackings and other violent crime incidents.
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Politics and Policy
Peter Loge is associate professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Professor Loge has more than 30 years of experience in politics and communications, including a presidential appointment at the Food and Drug Administration. He currently leads the Project on Ethics in Political Communication at the School of Media and Public Affairs.
Matthew Dallek is a professor at the George Washington University School of Political Management. Professor Dallek is a political historian whose intellectual interests include the intersection of social crises and political transformation, the evolution of the modern conservative movement, and liberalism and its critics. He is also a frequent commentator in the national news media on politics, history and public affairs.
Law
Laura Dickinson is the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. Dickinson is an expert on national security, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and foreign affairs privatization. Author of Outsourcing War and Peace, Dickinson examines the increasing outsourcing of military and security functions, considers the impact of this trend on core public values, and outlines mechanisms for protecting these values in an era of privatization.
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