Crime Since National Guard Appeared

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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.

Yes. Far better that I die at the hands of a thug than I have to see some kid from the Midwest in fatigues near a Metro station.

Freedumb.

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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.

Yes. Far better that I die at the hands of a thug than I have to see some kid from the Midwest in fatigues near a Metro station.

Freedumb.

You don't live in DC. I'm sure of it.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes. Far better that I die at the hands of a thug than I have to see some kid from the Midwest in fatigues near a Metro station.

Freedumb.

You don't live in DC. I'm sure of it.

You’re wrong, of course, but 100% consistent!

[Anonymous]

New admin USAO is WORSE at prosecution than the USAO under Matt Graves. What a nightmare. Prosecution was what I wanted them to fix.

"In a subsequent legal opinion, a federal magistrate judge said the errors were part of a broader pattern of unprecedented prosecutorial missteps, resulting in a 21% dismissal rate of the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office's criminal complaints over eight weeks, compared to a mere 0.5% dismissal rate over the prior 10 years."

https://www.reuters.com/l...025-12-17/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Muh freedom!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Over the last decade Shaw is a shadow of its former past. The median income is $85,000.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes. Far better that I die at the hands of a thug than I have to see some kid from the Midwest in fatigues near a Metro station.

Freedumb.

You don't live in DC. I'm sure of it.

You’re wrong, of course, but 100% consistent!

DP you are a weak troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes. Far better that I die at the hands of a thug than I have to see some kid from the Midwest in fatigues near a Metro station.

Freedumb.

Freedumb is thinking the National Guard is a permanent solution when their regular jobs typically pay more and are not required to pay differential.

[Anonymous]

It’s January 13, 5 months after the National Guard appeared. There have been 27 murders since they arrived on August 12 2025. There have been zero murders so far in 2026. This is a historic decrease in crime. Before the NG came there were 100 murders in 2025 and 187 in all of 2024.

How long does this experiment have to go on before the knee jerk reactionaries admit they were wrong and that this has actually led to a decrease in crime? If we had zero murders for the rest of the year would you still find a way to rationalize that it wasn’t making a difference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes. Far better that I die at the hands of a thug than I have to see some kid from the Midwest in fatigues near a Metro station.

Freedumb.

Freedumb is thinking the National Guard is a permanent solution when their regular jobs typically pay more and are not required to pay differential.

How ironic that people like you are only budget hawks when it comes to saving young Black men’s lives. Marinate on that.