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From the Daily Caller: More than half a dozen local D.C.-area police departments will not be assisting Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) with security for the 2025 Presidential Inauguration, the Daily Caller has learned. The MPD has been lambasted by both progressives and conservatives for its methods of policing, and the department refused to answer several questions from the Caller.
The decision by these departments could leave MPD with hundreds fewer officers than they would typically be able to rely on for an event of this magnitude.
While MPD claimed thousands of officers will assist with security, several local departments told the Caller they will not be helping. Most were vague with their reasons for skipping this year’s inauguration, but one department confirmed in an email that it was because of a dispute over a memorandum of understanding (MOU), or agreement between departments, with MPD.
“I was just told that based on the current MOU, we will not be assisting Metro PD,” a spokesperson for Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland told the Caller.
The report notes that the Howard and Queen Anne’s County police departments, also from Maryland, as well as the Frederick County Sheriff’s Department, have all stated they will not be assisting with security for the inauguration.
The Daily Caller notes that the main reason appears to be that the departments don’t want to work with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and is not an issue with the inauguration itself.
The Anne Arundel County, Maryland State Police, and Prince George’s County departments have all said they will be assisting the Capitol Police — but not the MPD.
One source familiar with the situation told the Daily Caller that the police departments may have issues with MPD’s strict use-of-force policy, which only allows “deadly force” to be used when an assailant “poses an imminent danger.”
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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 17, 2025
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