DC residents react after law enforcement surge ends The Charles Dickens novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ takes place in Paris and London. Maybe the late Dickens would describe this weekend in the nation’s capital as “Two Tales for One City.”

It has been only a few days since the Trump administration’s law enforcement surge ended.

President Donald Trump announced his plan to increase officers in D.C. and bring in the National Guard on Aug. 11.

WTOP spoke with residents at Hechinger Mall in Northeast D.C. about the law enforcement surge and whether they thought it was effective.

Everyone WTOP found said that something had to be done about crime, but some did question the timing of the surge.

One of those who was most vocal people about the surge was a woman named Linda, who works at one o

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