Crime Since National Guard Appeared

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel so much safer going to DC with them there and seeing them around!

Of course, it's all about your feels and not facts. Typical DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no doubt that crime has decreased. I mean, it's in the numbers, and also in a gut-check way, i feel much safer walking around Shaw and safer sending my tween-aged kids to walk by themselves.

Saying this out loud, however, results in a hysterical reaction from our white neighbors.

Brown and black citizens (we are in this category) don't have a problem admitting that it is safer. Brown non-citizens are terrified.

We’ve noticed the same thing.

Rich white leftists are the main source of problems in this country now.
There's even a trending name for them now AWFULs
Affluent
White
Feminist
Urban
Leftists

They tend to have short unnaturally colored hair, problem glasses, EVs or SUVs, pants suits or skinny jeans, soy hipster metrosexual look in their "men". They tend to be loud, obnoxious, and racist, while constantly screaming that they are sane, normal, and not racist.

Avoid if you come across one. They are often riddled with disease.

Some people have imaginary friends. You have imaginary nemeses. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

As of December 18, there were 25 murders in 4+ months since the NG came in on August 12. Previously there were 100 from January 1, 2025, to August 12, 2025.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime

The lowest number of murders in a single year in recent memory were 88 in 2012.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel so much safer going to DC with them there and seeing them around!

+1

+2, they are frequently in the area of my office and I like having them there. The sketchy mentally ill homeless people that on any given day could harass you no longer hang out near my office and nothing has changed other than the presence of the Guard.

[Anonymous]

well they need to go to SE c my coworker's car got broken into last week in the middle of the workday.

[Anonymous]

I don’t feel safer. They are armed and under-trained. The next time a dumb kid lights a firecracker they are going to cause a stampede.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t feel safer. They are armed and under-trained. The next time a dumb kid lights a firecracker they are going to cause a stampede.

Your feelings do not outweigh the data. 25 murders in 4 months and 6 days is insanely low by DC standards. At this rate we’d have 72 murders a year or less, which would be the lowest murder rate since the 1950s or 1960s probably.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t feel safer. They are armed and under-trained. The next time a dumb kid lights a firecracker they are going to cause a stampede.

Your feelings do not outweigh the data. 25 murders in 4 months and 6 days is insanely low by DC standards. At this rate we’d have 72 murders a year or less, which would be the lowest murder rate since the 1950s or 1960s probably.

New poster here. Actually there's never been that few murders in the city, but as recently as 2012 there we only 88.

But here's the thing. DC homicides are down 31 percent in 2025, true, but they were also down 32 percent in 2024 -- before Trump even took office.

The number of homicides in DC was lowest in recent memory during the period from 2011-2014. There were fewer homicides in DC in each of those years than there are this year. By far. So do we credit Obama's policies for that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no doubt that crime has decreased. I mean, it's in the numbers, and also in a gut-check way, i feel much safer walking around Shaw and safer sending my tween-aged kids to walk by themselves.

Saying this out loud, however, results in a hysterical reaction from our white neighbors.

Brown and black citizens (we are in this category) don't have a problem admitting that it is safer. Brown non-citizens are terrified.

Are the NG patrolling in Shaw?

I haven’t seen them in Brookland. Theft from our CVS is still outrageous, and a young woman was mugged and beaten by a group of people near the metro last month.

I see the NG pretty regularly at Gallery Place station and in the Navy Yard area, neither of which felt unsafe before or more safe now. So I’m curious how the NG is making a difference in Shaw.

Yup, they are here and I see them every day. The most notable difference is that they are often near the Shaw Metro station, and so the drug dealing that used to happen there doesn't happen there any longer. My tween walks around on his own and uses the metro to get to school, and he said he feels (and is) safer now, and he has less anxiety around this commute.

National Guard is clearly an expensive answer to this problem, but there is not doubt (in the numbers) that crime went down. There is also plenty of precedent for governors calling on national guard during crime surges, even in "blue" states like NY.

We are life long Democrats. However, acknowledging reality is very important.

ICE is a completely different conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no doubt that crime has decreased. I mean, it's in the numbers, and also in a gut-check way, i feel much safer walking around Shaw and safer sending my tween-aged kids to walk by themselves.

Saying this out loud, however, results in a hysterical reaction from our white neighbors.

Brown and black citizens (we are in this category) don't have a problem admitting that it is safer. Brown non-citizens are terrified.

Are the NG patrolling in Shaw?

I haven’t seen them in Brookland. Theft from our CVS is still outrageous, and a young woman was mugged and beaten by a group of people near the metro last month.

I see the NG pretty regularly at Gallery Place station and in the Navy Yard area, neither of which felt unsafe before or more safe now. So I’m curious how the NG is making a difference in Shaw.

Yup, they are here and I see them every day. The most notable difference is that they are often near the Shaw Metro station, and so the drug dealing that used to happen there doesn't happen there any longer. My tween walks around on his own and uses the metro to get to school, and he said he feels (and is) safer now, and he has less anxiety around this commute.

National Guard is clearly an expensive answer to this problem, but there is not doubt (in the numbers) that crime went down. There is also plenty of precedent for governors calling on national guard during crime surges, even in "blue" states like NY.

We are life long Democrats. However, acknowledging reality is very important.

ICE is a completely different conversation.

We live in the neighborhood same neighborhood as you and roll our eyes at and feel sorry for the NG. We don't feel safer. We feel annoyed. We also have a tween and they don't feel any different than we do. Maybe your tween need to grow a spine. The drug dealers aren't there to bother your tween.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t feel safer. They are armed and under-trained. The next time a dumb kid lights a firecracker they are going to cause a stampede.

Your feelings do not outweigh the data. 25 murders in 4 months and 6 days is insanely low by DC standards. At this rate we’d have 72 murders a year or less, which would be the lowest murder rate since the 1950s or 1960s probably.

What about the data where they were literally already a crime magnet at Farragut? I transit through that station every day. They are making it more risky not less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no doubt that crime has decreased. I mean, it's in the numbers, and also in a gut-check way, i feel much safer walking around Shaw and safer sending my tween-aged kids to walk by themselves.

Saying this out loud, however, results in a hysterical reaction from our white neighbors.

Brown and black citizens (we are in this category) don't have a problem admitting that it is safer. Brown non-citizens are terrified.

Are the NG patrolling in Shaw?

I haven’t seen them in Brookland. Theft from our CVS is still outrageous, and a young woman was mugged and beaten by a group of people near the metro last month.

I see the NG pretty regularly at Gallery Place station and in the Navy Yard area, neither of which felt unsafe before or more safe now. So I’m curious how the NG is making a difference in Shaw.

Yup, they are here and I see them every day. The most notable difference is that they are often near the Shaw Metro station, and so the drug dealing that used to happen there doesn't happen there any longer. My tween walks around on his own and uses the metro to get to school, and he said he feels (and is) safer now, and he has less anxiety around this commute.

National Guard is clearly an expensive answer to this problem, but there is not doubt (in the numbers) that crime went down. There is also plenty of precedent for governors calling on national guard during crime surges, even in "blue" states like NY.

We are life long Democrats. However, acknowledging reality is very important.

ICE is a completely different conversation.

We live in the neighborhood same neighborhood as you and roll our eyes at and feel sorry for the NG. We don't feel safer. We feel annoyed. We also have a tween and they don't feel any different than we do. Maybe your tween need to grow a spine. The drug dealers aren't there to bother your tween.

Interesting, maybe we actually know each other in real life. The drug dealers don't bother kids walking alone, but the people who buy drugs from them and then immediately use them do.

the gaslighting about how crime/drug dealing was never a big deal before is insane to me. The same group chats where people freaked out about a shooting a year ago, now full of eye rolls towards NG.

[Anonymous]

If you think the deployment is about crime you are not bright .

He’s going to use the military against citizens for the 2026 election

Maga cult of stupidity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no doubt that crime has decreased. I mean, it's in the numbers, and also in a gut-check way, i feel much safer walking around Shaw and safer sending my tween-aged kids to walk by themselves.

Saying this out loud, however, results in a hysterical reaction from our white neighbors.

Brown and black citizens (we are in this category) don't have a problem admitting that it is safer. Brown non-citizens are terrified.

Are the NG patrolling in Shaw?

I haven’t seen them in Brookland. Theft from our CVS is still outrageous, and a young woman was mugged and beaten by a group of people near the metro last month.

I see the NG pretty regularly at Gallery Place station and in the Navy Yard area, neither of which felt unsafe before or more safe now. So I’m curious how the NG is making a difference in Shaw.

Yup, they are here and I see them every day. The most notable difference is that they are often near the Shaw Metro station, and so the drug dealing that used to happen there doesn't happen there any longer. My tween walks around on his own and uses the metro to get to school, and he said he feels (and is) safer now, and he has less anxiety around this commute.

National Guard is clearly an expensive answer to this problem, but there is not doubt (in the numbers) that crime went down. There is also plenty of precedent for governors calling on national guard during crime surges, even in "blue" states like NY.

We are life long Democrats. However, acknowledging reality is very important.

ICE is a completely different conversation.

We live in the neighborhood same neighborhood as you and roll our eyes at and feel sorry for the NG. We don't feel safer. We feel annoyed. We also have a tween and they don't feel any different than we do. Maybe your tween need to grow a spine. The drug dealers aren't there to bother your tween.

Yeah, until they try shooting at a rival across the street and an innocent person gets in the way. That never happens though….oh wait, it does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you think the deployment is about crime you are not bright .

He’s going to use the military against citizens for the 2026 election

Maga cult of stupidity

I’ve never voted for Trump in my life, but that doesn’t change the murder stats. When the NG isn’t used in 2026 will you come back in this thread and apologize for being a bat crazy Alex Jones level conspiracy theorist?

I work in a neighborhood in DC that everyone in this thread would be scared to walk through. It is noticeably safer in the past few months. That matters to me and the family that I have to come home safely to. Sorry if that bothers you.