President Donald Trump said he will patrol D.C. streets on Thursday night alongside the Metropolitan Police Department and National Guard troops, as his Administration continues its effort to crack down on crime and exert control over the nation’s capital.

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, D.C., have falsified crime data.

The inquiry into whether data was manipulated to make crime rates seem lower is being run out of the office of the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been granted permission to intervene in legal action over the issue

An ice cream seller who was stabbed to death in north-west London has been named by the Metropolitan Police. Shazad Khan, 41, was pronounced dead at the scene after officers responded to reports of an altercation in Monks Park in Wembley at 6.10pm on Tuesday.

The city’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit calling for an emergency restraining order to block the move, accusing the Trump Administration of implementing a “hostile takeover” of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) that would lead to “imminent, irreparable harm”.

The move amounts to a sweeping reversal of "sanctuary" policies in the nation's capital, allowing the Metropolitan Police Department, for the time being, to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

Kneecap have expressed displeasure toward the Metropolitan Police after Public Order Act conditions were issued for rapper Mo Chara's upcoming court appearance.