00:00Hi, Madam Mayor. Do you believe that the Trump administration's surge of federal law enforcement is more of a pretext to enforce immigration law as opposed to fight violent crime in D.C.?
00:10Well, this is what I know, is that our police department has been consistently, precipitously driving down crime for the last two years.
00:22I think up before the federal surge, more than 25 percent down. Last year, more than 35 percent down on, I think, all categories of violent crime.
00:35And so we know that that has been effective work with the police department.
00:43We know that the surge of federal officers is allowing for different types of deployment and more frequent types of deployment, like checkpoints.
00:55The request from the feds that was represented in the Pan-Bondi order almost exclusively focused on immigration enforcement and homeless encampment enforcement.
01:11So I'll let you try your own conclusion.
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