“It speaks to their lack of genuineness,” said Rena Karefa-Johnson, a vice president at FWD.us, a DC-based national criminal justice reform group.

U.S. President Donald Trump took his law-and-order message to the streets of the nation's capital on Thursday, visiting a command center to thank law enforcement officers who are carrying out his cri...

Bowser and other officials, including D.C.’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb, have strongly pushed back against Trump’s labeling of D.C. as the “most unsafe city” in the U.S.