{"id":12364,"date":"2025-08-16T01:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-backs-away-from-appointing-emergency-dc-police-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:21:02","slug":"doj-backs-away-from-appointing-emergency-dc-police-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-backs-away-from-appointing-emergency-dc-police-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ backs away from appointing emergency DC police commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to back away from appointing a commissioner to take command of Washington, D.C., police after a federal judge expressed concerns Friday.   Government attorneys said at a hearing that Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) head Terry Cole will instead become President Trump&rsquo;s designee to request services from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5455405-trump-bondi-dc-police-hearing\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to back away from appointing a commissioner to take command of Washington, D.C., police after a federal judge expressed concerns Friday. Government attorneys said at a hearing that Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) head Terry Cole will instead become President Trump&rsquo;s designee to request services from the Metropolitan Police Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}