Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city’s police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city.

We’re down in numbers with our D.C. police officers,” she said Wednesday morning in an interview with FOX5. “So this enhanced presence is going to impact us in a positive way.” Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said in that same appearance that she wanted to make sure “this federal surge is useful for us,