"Roving mobs of wild youth"

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Today, Explained

2025-08-14

27 分钟
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Trump says he is taking over DC’s police to save the city from crime — it's really just another way to demonstrate power, and generate headlines. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro at a press conference about crime in DC. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • The deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops in Washington,

  • D.C. started last night and the city's cops came under direct federal control.

  • So far, TBH, not very much has happened.

  • On Monday, President Trump gave a wild press conference justifying his takeover of D.C.

  • The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Mexico City.

  • Some of the places that you hear about, caravans of mass youth rampage through city streets.

  • And we're getting rid of the slums, too.

  • But it was the U.S. attorney for the district, Jeanine Pirro, who pulled focus.

  • I see too much violent crime being committed by young punks.

  • With allegations of extreme specificity.

  • These kids understand that the jurisdiction is... through the state attorney general, Brian Schwab.

  • What?

  • They do not.

  • Today on Today Explained from Vox, what's really happening in D.C.?

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