Crime Since National Guard Appeared

[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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What a load of bulksh#t. Typical suburban racist maga.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What a load of bulksh#t. Typical suburban racist maga.

Okay Vlad / CCP bot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

We've lived within a block or two of Shaw Metro for well over 10 years and have two kids who are well into their school aged years and they've never been bothered either by drug dealers or people who buy drugs from them. Not saying I want any of it in the neighborhood, I don't obviously. But that's another issue.

Obviously if you flood the streets of American cities with camouflaged men carrying guns it will deter some crime, yes. That's a given. I don't want to live in a police state, however.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yet you're too afraid to name the neighborhood?

[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.

Wow.