Just another day in the mainland colony (boldface mine):

The stated goal of the recruitment blitz is to establish Park Police as “the premier law enforcement agency in D.C.” — keeping the city safe “regardless of inaction” by the local police department and local elected officials, records show. The surge unfolds as the president and Republican lawmakers continue to cast D.C. as scourged by violence and run by ill-equipped progressives.

As part of the Department of the Interior, Park Police are tasked with protecting national parkland and monuments…

An internal document from late August that appears to outline Park Police’s strategy in D.C. describes officers collaborating with other agencies to execute warrants and tackling narcotics, firearms and immigration issues. The document describes the use of patrols in high-crime areas, expanding the use of cameras and deploying plainclothes officers…

It was not immediately clear how Park Police and D.C. police would coordinate on priorities and deployment…

“It is extremely unusual activity for Park Police to do things like drugs and gang enforcement,” the employee said. “That is not what Park Police does, they are for national parks. … Why are they doing that?”

…In the first three weeks of Trump’s surge in federal law enforcement in D.C., for example, U.S. Park Police initiated at least 10 car chases, The Post previously reported. All began as traffic stops for nonviolent crimes and all would have violated D.C. police policy. Six ended in crashes.

While everyone else in the country is worried about ICE becoming a secret police, in D.C., it looks like the Park Police is making a play for that role. I’m not here to sing the MPD’s praises, but at least it’s nominally accountable to the citizens of the District. With the Park Police, there is no accountability to D.C. residents whatsoever, and it can set its own policies without any concerns for what those who are affected by those policies think.

One more reason why D.C. needs statehood.