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U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Mon­day that he’s de­ploy­ing the Na­tion­al Guard across Wash­ing­ton and tak­ing over the city’s po­lice de­part­ment in the hopes of re­duc­ing crime, even as the city’s may­or has not­ed that crime is falling in the na­tion’s cap­i­tal.

The Re­pub­li­can pres­i­dent, who said he was for­mal­ly de­clar­ing a pub­lic safe­ty emer­gency, com­pared crime in the Amer­i­can cap­i­tal with that in oth­er ma­jor cities, say­ing Wash­ing­ton per­forms poor­ly on safe­ty rel­a­tive to the cap­i­tals of Iraq, Brazil and Colom­bia, among oth­ers.

Trump al­so said at his news brief­ing that his ad­min­is­tra­tion has start­ed re­mov­ing home­less en­camp­ments “from all over our parks, our beau­ti­ful, beau­ti­ful parks.”