After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to see him.

America needs to know why your nation’s capital, a place where 700,000 tax-paying Americans live, should be the 51st state,” said DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Trump's federalization of the D.C. police is spurning outrage among Democrats and local activists claiming this is another example why D.C. needs statehood.

Returning to Donald Trump’s press conference about crime in Washington DC, the US President also claimed "the number of carjackings has more than tripled" over the last five years. But despite the president’s assertion, carjackings - like many other police recorded crimes in DC - have fallen in the past year.

President Donald Trump said he would ask Congress to approve a crime bill that would allow him greater authority over Washington, DC’s police department as well as new spending to fund beautification projects,

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Congress will need to pass a bill to address crime and that the legislation should include an extension to the 30-day limit on federal police control of Washington,