THE BACKSTORY: The police are part of the National Park Service and has jurisdiction in all federal parks, with offices in Washington, New York and San Francisco, according to the agency's website.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police ...

The order effectively strips authority from the head of the Metropolitan Police Department days after Trump launched a ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a directive late on Thursday naming Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole as the "emergency police commissioner" of Washington's Metropolitan Police ...

President Donald Trump promised on Thursday that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) will be held accountable for ...

President Trump and his allies have berated Washington, D.C., officials. Yet the federal government has often made it harder ...

The increased law enforcement presence drew a crowd of protesters a day after the National Guard was deployed on city streets ...

D.C. police officers will be able to assist federal immigration authorities by sharing information about people not in police ...

"With crime trends going down in recent years, I'm not sure there is that emergency," ArentFox Schiff partner David Grosso ...

FBI agents – thrust into yet another role for which they are not trained – have been put on patrol duties with local police ...

P resident Donald Trump announced on Monday that the federal government would take over the police department in the nation's capital to help make D.C. safer and combat city crime for the next 30 days ...

Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns ...