Washington – President Donald Trump plans to sign a management decree on Monday aimed at eliminating the deposit without cash for suspects arrested in Washington, DC, said a senior White House official.
The official said that the decree could threaten to retain federal funding or project approvals supported by the government if the district does not end the policy, which allows people to be released to wait for the trial without paying a deposit.
The ordinance will also ask the officials of the application of the laws to work to ensure that those arrested at DC are taken in federal rather than local custody, said the official.
A spokesperson for the mayor’s office Muriel Bowser refused to comment on NBC News.
The planned decree, which was reported for the first time by Axios, marks Trump’s last stage to expand the administration control over the capital. He comes in the heels of the controversial decision of the White House to deploy and arm the troops of the National Guard in order to fight against crime. Critics, however, criticized the manipulation of the administration as an excess and useless.
They argue that the cash guarantee disproportionately injures low -income people, who may have more difficulty ensuring money to pay the liberation on a deposit for prison release.
Trump, however, criticized this practice, saying earlier this month which was a “disaster” and caused “so many problems that we had never had before”.
“So they look at us today, and if they don’t learn their lesson, if they haven’t studied us properly, because we are going to succeed,” said Trump about other cities earlier in August.
DC has a bonding system without species since 1992. Policy means that judges decide whether people accused of crimes present a risk for others or the community as a whole or would have a risk of theft in the event of liberation without money for a deposit linked to the freedom of the person. If the judges do one of these determinations, they can choose to hold a defendant in a detention center before the trial.
Within the framework of the own security measures of the city government, the DC Council extended its policy of pre -trial detention in July.
The expected decree occurs while the national guard troops in DC began to transport firearms on Sunday evening. Still over the weekend, Trump threatened to deploy troops in Baltimore. A few days earlier, he floated by sending the National Guard to Chicago and New York.
The emphasis put by Trump on the way in which the capital is managed is a brutal gap compared to previous administrations. He promulgated radical changes by increasing the national guard and federal agents in the city, pushing the law enforcement agencies to eliminate homeless camps and restore a confederate memorial to the National Cemetery of Arlington.
Last week, Trump also announced that he had ordered lawyers to review the museums of the Smithsonian, arguing that legendary museums were not positive enough on American history, “where everything discussed is horrible of our country, how bad the slavery was and how badly complicated the oppressed.”
