A federally led crime sweep ordered by President Donald Trump has produced more than 240 arrests and the seizure of 38 illegal firearms in Washington, D.C., roughly a week after operations began, according to White House and law-enforcement figures. Authorities say about 75 homeless encampments have also been dismantled under the president’s “Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful” executive order. The crackdown started on Aug. 7 and intensified on Aug. 11, when Trump invoked emergency powers in the Home Rule Act to place the Metropolitan Police Department under temporary federal control for up to 30 days. Twenty-two multi-agency task-force teams—comprising more than 1,800 personnel, including some 800 National Guard troops—are now patrolling all seven police districts. Officials report that those arrested include gang members, robbery suspects and immigration violators; no confrontations were recorded during the camp clearances. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called the early results “breathtaking.” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser labeled the takeover “unsettling and unprecedented,” and congressional Democrats have introduced a resolution aimed at curbing the move, noting local statistics that violent crime had already been falling.