CAN PRESIDENT TRUMP APPOINT THE NEXT DC MPD POLICE CHIEF?
Mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser, is not running for a fourth term and will be stepping down in January 2027.
Chief Pamela Smith said she will step down from her position leading D.C. police at the end of December 2025.
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WTOP reported: "D.C. police Chief Pamela Smith is stepping down at the end of the month after two years leading the department, taking over during a rash of postpandemic violence and ending her tenure on pace for an eight-year low number of homicides in 2025."
Smith was hired as the first Black female Chief of Police for Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in July 2023, after serving as MPD's Chief Equity Officer and Assistant Chief, following a distinguished career as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, making history in multiple leadership roles before stepping down at the end of 2025.
DC MPD reports:
Homocides 2023: 274
Homocides 2024: 187
Homocides 2025: 125
WTOP reports, "“I’ve been running for 28 years, this has really been a fast paced role because it is in a major city, and I know the challenges that we faced have,” Smith said during a news conference Monday. “We’ve had some some some high points, that we’ve had some low points, but respectfully, right now, this is a personal decision for myself and for my family.”"
WTOP continues: "The D.C. police union praised Smith’s leadership Monday, while raising questions about her resignation.
“However, the Union questions the timing of this announcement, which comes amid active investigations by the House Oversight Committee and the Department of Justice into allegations of manipulation of crime statistics and mismanagement within the MPD,” the union wrote in a statement.
Back in August, the Justice Department opened an investigation into whether D.C. police officials falsified data to make crime rates appear lower.
The House Oversight Committee alleged the data was “deliberately manipulated” in an August news release announcing its investigation, which was reportedly prompted in part by a whistleblower."
Yes, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the House Oversight Committee are investigating allegations that the MPD in Washington, D.C., has manipulated crime statistics by downgrading charges or altering data to make crime appear lower, following a whistleblower report a nd action against a specific commander. These federal and congressional probes are looking into potential widespread falsification directed by senior leadership to meet perceived performance goals, even as the city reported low crime rates.
The Heritage Foundation has published several opinion pieces and articles discussing these statistics, often linking the recent decreases to the federal law enforcement "surge" ordered by President Trump in August 2025. Charles “Cully” Stimson, a widely recognized expert in national security, homeland security, crime control, drug policy, and immigration, in "Trump’s D.C. Crime Success Puts Spotlight on Chicago’s Deadly “War Zone”", writes, "In Washington, D.C., since the operation began on Aug. 7, arrests are up, homicides are down nearly 60%, and violent crime has decreased by 17%. In one two-week stretch, there wasn’t one homicide, which is, sadly, remarkable." Stimson continues, "resident Donald Trump’s focus on crime across America is timely and necessary. It’s epidemic in many blue cities in our country, and something must, and can, be done about it. His crackdown in Washington, D.C., proves that dramatic reductions in crime in cities acclimatized to perpetual lawlessness and violence are possible, but only if you have the political courage to do so."
Stimson writes, "Lax local laws passed by the D.C. City Council and local judges who give criminals a pass every day are major contributors to the city’s culture of violence. To fix these gaps, Congress is considering several proposals to fix the criminal justice system in D.C. permanently." He says lax laws, I give you Shadija Romero. Romero is involved in a legal dispute with homeowner Rochanne Douglas in Washington D.C., where Romero allegedly stayed in Douglas's Airbnb past her booking and claimed tenant rights, refusing to leave. You think my conservative writings don't have influence in DC? Ward 5 Councilmember Zachary Parker released a statement, ""This is a ridiculous situation, and one that my team has been monitoring. We’ve been in touch with the property owner and will be watching for the court’s decision (Thursday). I have also asked my legislative team to look into existing law to understand what gaps may exist and I am prepared to explore the introduction of emergency legislation if necessary."" No, matter who or what, you make a difference with your common sense and reason. Go make a difference today!
Stimson continues, "President Trump’s use of the bully pulpit to highlight the high crime rates of Chicago and other blue cities is welcome news. Gone are the days of feel-good slogans about “reimagining” reform and “mass incarceration.” The Soros rogue prosecutor movement has failed, as has the “defund the police” and cashless bail experiment."
The Mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, appoints the MPD Police Chief, but the nomination must then go through confirmation hearings and a final vote by the D.C. Council, specifically the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, for approval. The Mayor selects a candidate (often from within or outside the department), and the Council confirms them, ensuring both executive and legislative branches play a role in this significant leadership appointment. The DC Police Chief (currently Pamela Smith, until Dec 31, 2025) answers to the Mayor of Washington, D.C. (Muriel Bowser), who appoints them, with confirmation by the D.C. Council, maintaining local control despite recent federal challenges to that authority. Not to the US President. Not to Congress. Not to the citizens or for my left-leaning readers, residents. Only to the Mayor!
Per Congress: "House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is launching an investigation following disturbing allegations and whistleblower disclosures suggesting that leadership within the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, D.C., deliberately manipulated crime data in the District of Columbia. In a letter to MPD Chief of Police Pamela Smith, Chairman Comer noted that MPD recently entered into a settlement over allegations that senior officials falsified D.C. crime statistics to lower reported crime rates and the Committee is now requesting documents, information, and transcribed interviews with District Commander Michael Pulliam and the District Commanders of all seven patrol districts."
Only to the Mayor!
They are both stepping down. Anybody's Spidey senses tingling?
"Spidey senses are tingling" means you have a strong gut feeling or intuition that something is wrong, dangerous, or suspicious, directly referencing Spider-Man's precognitive danger sense that tingles to warn him of threats
Chairman Comer reports: "A whistleblower with direct knowledge of internal MPD operations and crime data discussions also informed the Committee that crime statistics were allegedly manipulated on a widespread basis and at the direction of senior MPD officials. According to the whistleblower, while MPD took action against a single District Commander, the issue potentially affects all seven patrol districts, as MPD leadership allegedly instructed Commanders to routinely downgrade charges to artificially lower District crime statistics."
Well, Ken, you have no proof of Smith, Bowser, or MPD doing this before? Right Wing Fake News!
Someone once wrote, "Bowser, at the cost of public safety, was committed to winning the Radical Left over. She also knew that she needed to be seen as tough on crime for the traditional Democrat-Marxists that wanted “safe streets” to keep citizens and businesses in the City. So, you engineer a political propaganda machine that speaks to both groups as if you are satisfying all. Tough to do when homicides have swollen from 105 in 2014 to 226 in 2022 and despite unfounded claims that Recovering Guns will reduce Crime (2,178 Recovered in 2014 and 3,152 Recovered in 2022)."
Somone also wrote, "Smith admits that she has no law enforcement strategy or plan and must wait for her leadership team to help form one. This although she was once a noted Police Chief with the US Park Police. 59 Days into her new gig, the “pistol-packin’ preacher” announces that crime has fallen 30% since she was promoted. This just 37 days after DC Councilmember Trayon White called for the National Guard to enter the City because “We are in a War Zone”. By the way, Smith hasn’t had time to talk with White about that National Guard thing."
Amazing!
While we are in our City's mourning, we have just lost our Black Lives Matter Police Chief! "You have to show the Police that you got their back in a strong Mayor system but, they will have to get used to the New Normal: BlackLivesMatter Defund the Policing. Finally, you have to show your voters that Demographics, not Crime, is all that Matters and we can solve anything if we just hire the right Black, female Police Chief that will put away her Faith to police the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ and the P community--”And my faith has nothing to do with me treating anyone differently,” " Smith was Bowser's BLM pick and was well endorsed, She was an experienced law and order cop as she had served as Chief of the US Park Police. The Propaganda Machine never seemed to question why a woman who became Park Police Chief, the first in its 230 plus year history, just retired after one year. "the Park Police officers’ union filed a five-page complaint with the inspector general saying the agency was “engaged in gross negligence and mismanagement at great risk to the safety of the public due to understaffing of sworn personnel.” The Fraternal Order of Police’s Park Police Labor Committee said staffing for the three field offices had dropped from about 639 officers to 494 officers, lower than the force size in 1975."
On my hands and knees, I beg, "Can the US President appoint the mpd police cheif if it is federalized?"
Radical Left, AI tried to dash my hopes. "No, the U.S. President generally cannot directly appoint the MPD Chief, even if federalizing the force; the power to appoint the Chief rests with D.C.'s Mayor under the Home Rule Act, though the President can request MPD's use for federal purposes during emergencies, but federal courts have limited this authority, stating the President can't install an "ultimate ruler" or take over local law enforcement command. Trump's Article II powers over D.C. primarily stem from his role as Commander-in-Chief, allowing him command of the D.C. National Guard, and the federal nature of the District, giving him authority to intervene in "emergency" situations under the Home Rule Act, including federalizing local police or directing city services, though Congress retains oversight and budgetary control, making a full federal takeover complex."
In Heritage's "Trump Has Constitutional Authority To Battle D.C. Crime", Thomas Jipping and Hans A. von Spakovsky write, "The District has never had either sovereignty or any right to self-governance. That’s not only a historical fact—it’s how the Founders designed it." The authors continue, "The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that this federal control over the District is so complete that Congress can even treat it as a state for specific purposes, such as taxation or diversity jurisdiction. It can even extend to the District restrictions the Constitution imposes on states.
The District has been governed in several ways, including an elected city council and presidentially appointed mayor; a two-chamber legislature, one appointed by the president and the other elected; a three-member commission appointed by the president; and, since 1973, an elected mayor and city council.
Yet each time, Congress dictated how the district would be organized and governed. The Home Rule Act in place today expressly states that Congress “reserves the right, at any time, to exercise its constitutional authority as legislature for the District.”
The feds have stepped in before when the District was poorly governed. A deepening financial crisis due to reckless spending led Congress in 1995 to create the District of Columbia Financial Control Board, which directly ran the District’s finances for the next six years. The Board balanced the District’s budget and then phased out its control, but now D.C. once again faces a $1.1 billion deficit in the current fiscal year."
Radical Left clutch your pearls, No, a militia is not the same as police, though both are armed groups that maintain order; police are professional, state-funded law enforcement, while a militia traditionally refers to armed civilian volunteers called up for defense, though today it often means unauthorized, private paramilitary groups acting outside the law, as distinct from official forces like the National Guard.
President Trump asserted authority over D.C.'s police (MPD) by invoking the D.C. Home Rule Act's Section 740, declaring a "crime emergency" to use MPD for federal purposes, placing it under temporary federal control (up to 30 days initially) for "federal purposes," a move sparking legal challenges and debates over D.C. self-governance, despite D.C. seeing declining crime, as he also deployed the National Guard.
Smith’s resignation comes amid the continued presence of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital. President Trump deployed the Guard to the District in August, with the administration saying that local officials had “lost control of public safety.”
The president also federalized the MPD, but Smith stayed on as chief amid the surge in federal law enforcement."
Congress, Bowser is stepping down. Take the burden of replacing Smith off her hands. Expand the Article II powers of President Trump to pick the next police chief. Per President Trump in Executive Order "DECLARING A CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA" on August 11, 2025, it is written, "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act (Public Law 93-198), as amended (section 740 of the Home Rule Act), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
Citizens, tourists, and Federal workers deserve peace and security, not fear and violence. The smooth functioning of executive departments and agencies, courts, diplomatic missions, and the Federal Government demands an effective law-enforcement mechanism capable of halting the precipitous rise in violent crime, not one that permits Government workers to be violently attacked by mobs or fatally shot close to the Federal buildings where they work."
Picking a police chief is critically important, often cited as one of the most crucial decisions a city manager makes, directly impacting public safety, community trust, and the entire city's quality of life, requiring a focus on modern leadership skills like community engagement, ethical culture, and crisis management, beyond just traditional operational experience. The right chief sets the department's tone and policies, while a poor choice can severely damage public confidence and internal morale.David Couper in "More on Seeking a Chief of Police", wrote, "The police chief should be a visible and accessible leader who thoughtfully strives to improve the effectiveness of police services. The leadership ability of the chief is the single most important ingredient in a good police agency. Police agencies, like all large bureaucracies, tend to resist change. Improvements can be made only if the person at the top is willing to challenge the status quo, take risks, be innovative, and build a coalition of support for change. Improvements are not automatic with a committed police chief, but they are impossible without one…"
The overall improvement should be a force focused on law and order not political manipulation. DC does not need political science policing. Bowser owed her Radical Left constituents patronage in order to keep her Black Card. With both Bowser and Smith exiting stage right, it is essential that Trup picks the next law and order police chief. Trump frequently uses the phrase "law and order," famously declaring, "I am the law and order candidate," in 2016, promising to restore it to the nation, viewing it as essential for freedom and prosperity, and often linking its absence to chaos and danger, while also directing federal action like mobilizing the National Guard to quell unrest in cities like D.C.. Not racial but legal!
When you are a Democrat-Marxist, the only SCIENCE that matters is POLITICAL. Full speed ahead! Run the Propaganda Machine! Congress make the choice Trump's!
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