After a judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington’s police, the Justice Department issued a new directive leaving the city’s police chief in charge, for now.

Zuidema is from Lynchburg, VA. He began his career with the Lynchburg Police Department in 1997 and has held a wide range of assignments and leadership roles within the department, and was appointed Chief of Police in 2018.

After a court hearing, the Justice Department revised a directive but reasserted expectations for local police to help with federal immigration enforcement.

A fight over city officers in the nation's capital has escalated to a lawsuit filed by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb against President Donald Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi,

Michael Sullivan was just settling into his role as chief of the Capitol Police when President Donald Trump shined a bright light on law enforcement in the nation’s capital. Trump’s move to exert emergency powers over local police and deploy the National Guard has been felt throughout the District, as Sullivan can attest.

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes was reportedly eating lunch yards away when masked robbers stole $2 million in diamonds and Rolex watches from a West Seattle jewelry store.

The development came after Washington, D.C.'s attorney general filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb are forcefully rejecting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s late-night order attempting to sideline the local D.C. police chief, calling it unlawful and beyond federal authority.