Democratic governors are fighting on the overvoltage of crime while opposing Trump’s federal repression

A handful of democratic governors write crime while President Donald Trump threatens to send the National Guard to Blue Cities struggling with waves of persistent crimes that left residents killed or injured and companies have closed.

Governor of Maryland Wes Moore (D) – who exchanged beards with Trump to oppose the president’s calls to activate the national guard in the long crime city – announced on Friday that Maryland state police will strengthen the efforts of the Baltimore police service to fight crime.

“We are proud of the progress we have been able to achieve, and we are all very, very concerned about the quantity of work to perform,” said Moore on Friday after ordering the state police to help his counterparts in Baltimore law. “If a person does not feel safe in their neighborhood, it’s too big.”

Trump is in the midst of a repression of the national crime that started in Washington, DC, in August, when he federalized the city under article 740 of the law on the rule of the Maison du District de Columbia, which allows the president to assume emergency control of the capital forces for 30 days. Trump has since deployed the deployment of the National Guard in cities riddled by crime such as Baltimore and Chicago to install the law and the order.

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President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he leaves the White House in Washington, DC, Sunday, September 7, 2025. (Jose Luis Magana / AP Photo)

However, democratic leaders and local leaders have frequently fell into Trump’s repression as a form of “authoritarianism”.

The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, for example, said in August that “we cannot incarcerate our path of violence”, while saying that the United States has “dependence” for criminals in imprisonment. The Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker described a potential presence of the National Guard in the streets as useless, citing the slowdown in crime trends in Chicago from the 2020 Wild era and promoting state investments in community violence intervention programs.

In the midst of the left -wing indignation concerning the repression of Trump’s crime, some Democratic governors have taken additional measures at the level of the state to stifle crime in violent jurisdictions, Fox News Digital revealed.

“Firstly, the Democrats said that there was no crime problem and made fun of the American people to be concerned about their security. But now that they have seen the huge results provided by President Trump, they are impatient to imitate their success – the reality is that the American people benefit when the president’s agenda is implemented. Whether it is a lesson for All Democrats, President Trump was about everything!” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday morning when he questioned a trio of Democratic governors who have announced crime repression initiatives in recent days.

The Democratic Governor of New Mexico Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks on August 9, 2023 in Belen, in New Mexico. (AP photo / Alex Brandon, file)

Only a few days after Trump Federalized Washington, the DC police department, the Democratic Governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham, said the state of emergency in Rio Arriba County, the City of Española and the local communities of Pueblo in response to a “significant increase in violent crimes, drug trafficking and public security threats local “.

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“We put all the resources available to support our local partners in the field and restore public security and stability to these areas that have been the hardest affected by this crisis,” said Lujan Grisham in a press release on August 13.

The state of emergency has authorized up to $ 750,000 in “emergency financing for the Ministry of Internal Security and Emergency Management” to coordinate response efforts in the affected areas, and will remain in force until the funds are spent, or that additional resources are no longer necessary.

The decision of Lujan Grisham followed the Democratic Governor Slamming Trump for the Federalization of DC, calling him: “The implementation of the executive in Washington (which) establishes a dangerous precedent and undermines security in the capital of our country.”

Lujan Grisham’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s comments on the issue.

Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference in Oakland, California. (Jeff Chiu, File / AP Photo)

In California, Trump Political Foe’s long -standing governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state road patrol would deploy new “crime suppression” teams in massive state cities by seeing crime trends, notably San Diego, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Sacramento and the Bay region of San Francisco. The announcement follows an initiative to repress crime similar to Oakland, Bakersfield and San Bernardino, the governor said at the time.

“These operations will be targeted,” said Newsom at a press conference in August during the announcement. “They will be based on data.”

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The Newsom office stressed the data showing that the crime has dropped on the whole in California in 2024 and that the increased presence of the CHP in the new jurisdictions was part of the “next phase of the governor of his efforts to combat crime”.

Govs democratic. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Wes Moore of Maryland and Gavin Newsom from California have launched reinforced public security measures in the middle of the crime of President Trump. (Getty Images)

“While the Trump administration undermines cities, California is associated with them and gives real results. With these new deployments, we double these partnerships to rely on progress and continue to reduce crime,” Newsom said in a statement of the initiative.

Newsom is among the vocal democrats who criticized Trump for his repression of the crime, in particular by exciting the administration in June, when federal law officials and the National Guard converged in Los Angeles to specifically hold and deport illegal immigrants. A federal judge ruled earlier in September that the Trump administration had violated federal laws by sending the National Guard to Los Angeles in June – a decision that only affects the State and not other states.

“Today, the court has drew on the side of democracy and the constitution. No president is a king – not even Trump – and no president can trample the power of a state to protect his people,” said Newsom following the judge’s decision.

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Asked about the strengthening of the presence of CHP in the national repression of Trump’s crime, the Newsom office said: “There is no correlation between the public security investments of California and Trump sending the national guard unnecessarily to Washington, DC”

The State has invested $ 1.7 billion since 2019 to stimulate public security, including record funding in 2023 to combat retail crime organized with a 310% increase in application operations, a spokesperson for the Newsom office.

“I know that the question of reducing crime is an important question, but I want to make this crystal clear,” Newsom in August said public security plans. “It is never good enough. Enough, never. Success is not a place or a definition. Success is a direction. There are no things that have been achieved with regard to the question of the abolition of crime. This is why in California, we continue to rely not only on these partnerships, but more than 1.7 billion dollars of resources that we have provided in virtue of this state.”

President Donald Trump and the Democratic Governor of Maryland Wes Moore. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty (left); Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

Back in Maryland, Moore criticized Trump about the federalization of DC, the appellant “deeply dangerous” before the pair puts in the spats on the security of Baltimore, which included Trump paying cold water on the future potential presidential race of Moore and threatening to draw federal funding to reconstruct the bridge of Francis Scott Key de Baltimore after collapse in 2024.

The Democratic Governor sent a letter to Trump in August inviting him to visit Baltimore, whom the president postponed while saying to Moore to “clean this crime disaster”.

Moore defended that crime trends show that Baltimore security has increased in recent years, especially when the state police will help Baltimore police for public security.

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President Donald Trump is expressed with members of the law forces and soldiers of the National Guard, on August 21, 2025, in Washington, DC (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

“Because even if Baltimore City knows some of the most impressive crimes of crimes throughout the country, the work is far from over. We can, and we will do more on public security, because our employees deserve nothing less,” Moore said in a press release announcing the police and the police of the Maryland transport authority will help the Baltimore police.

The additional police presence will target high -risk areas and “will focus on the provision of a very visible presence of the law to dissuade and prevent crime”, according to the governor’s press release.

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Trump celebrated Washington’s federalization, DC police forces as a success, including scoring zero homicides over a period of 13 days in August, and the arrests of more than 2,000 suspects. The president also praised the Democratic mayor of DC Muriel Bowser for his effort to help.

“We no longer have a crime problem in Washington,” Trump told journalists earlier in September of repression. “And the mayor was very useful.”