NYT’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Federal Takeover in D.C.: ‘The Numbers Don‘t Back Up the Contention that This Has Been Hugely Effective’

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GARCIA-NAVARRO: “The numbers don‘t back up the contention that this has been hugely effective. What you‘ve seen absolutely is a huge diminution, crime going down, as you — one would expect when you have a huge surge of law enforcement. But, obviously, you can‘t sustain that, right? That isn‘t policing, that isn‘t looking at the long-term, you know, kind of plan for community. That is a surge of forces, which happen in many places. And it just shows that there really aren‘t any policies in place here. But what you‘ve seen in terms of arrests, actually, not much many more arrests than you have seen at other periods of time here. So, you know, what is the actual effect of this crime surge? I think you‘ll look back and say, sure, crime went down for a very limited period of time.”