Well before President Donald Trump put a national spotlight on the public safety crisis in Washington, D.C., the capital’s police force faced a chronic scarcity of officers due to Democrat-championed policies driving out officers in droves.

In the seven days since Trump deployed 800 National Guard troops in DC, violent crime is down 22% comapred to previous seven days

President Donald Trump joined the Metropolitan Police and the National Guard Thursday night for a ride along and lauded improvements to safety in the city since the federal takeover.

Thus far, Trump’s federal takeover has featured National Guard troops and vehicles stationed in visible locations around the city, with critics arguing that they’ve neglected lower-income areas that have experienced high levels of crime, HuffPost’s Sara Boboltz reports.

President Donald Trump is expected to join military and law enforcement officers on patrol in Washington, D.C. on the heels of declaring a public safety emergency earlier this month.

At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data.

CNN's Scott Jennings defends the federal takeover of Washington DC's police: ABBY PHILLIP: There's no denying D.C.'s got a crime problem, but should these governors be sending troops from their states where they have crime problems to D.