ICE Is Going to Sinister Lengths to Avoid Accountability

The national guards who patrol the streets of the city are not “in their path,” said Hodges, citing his six -year passage as a member of the Virginia National Guard. “I can tell you that this is not what they are trained to do,” said Hodges. “The soldiers are trained to fight and win wars. We are not in a war here in DC, there is crime here, but it is not a hellish landscape torn by the war as Trump said. The troops are not formed to apply the laws.”

As for the officers of various federal agencies which now do on the Washington police, he said: “I do not think that it is really their specialization. So many of these federal officers are investigators. They are supposed to be behind an office, you know, working in this way. ” Rather than helping local police in the harder areas of the city, Hodges said: “You will see [the federal agents] standing in the Chinese district or on the [National] Shopping center or walk in Georgetown. (Images of the social media of the first days of Trump’s takeover show them to do.))

In the event that President Trump actually wants to help local police, Hodges offered some advice. On the one hand, he said, the president could “allow DC to spend his own money”. DC, after all, is currently always “In the hole” of approximately $ 1 billion due to republican reductions in the city’s budget. In addition, suggested Hodges, the Federal Emergency Management Agency could cancel its recent 44% helping funding city security.