Crime Since National Guard Appeared

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Anonymous wrote:15 murders from August 12, when the Guard appeared, to October 24. This is almost 6 murders a month. There were 100 murders this year before that, from January 1 to August 11.

Now that it’s about two and a half months in, is there any rational argument that the National Guard’s presence hasn’t brought crime down? Is there anyone operating in good faith that thinks crime has gone up since they started patrolling?

You don’t have to like Trump and don’t have to have voted for him to concede that this has worked.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime

More government is never the answer. Sure, heavy handed presence will "reduce crime", but addressing the root CAUSE of the crime to begin with would solve it.

But nobody is interested in having that conversation, much less doing it.

Criminals criminal because it’s easier than studying or working.

Far more likely to have it backfire on you, and you end up dead, physically disabled, or in jail, for minimal gains.

That’s wealthy white person thinking.

Nope, that's the thinking of a poor person (including homeless a few times) who worked their ass off working 2-3 jobs, eventually put themselves through college, got better paying white collar professional jobs, and is now upper middle class. Do better.

So wealthy white person thinking. Your current privilege is showing.

Spin fail.

[Anonymous]

I live in the H street area. Crime is no better now than it was before. In particular, I've seen no improvement in drug use and it's public effects. The same "problem corners" where people use, buy/sell, and hang around on drugs exist, and neither the NG nor Trump's other efforts have done anything about it.

This problem got very bad during and immediately after the pandemic. I'd say it was already down from it's peaked (maybe 2022?) when Trump was reelected. His actions have done nothing to further improvement be it though.

The NG are totally superfluous around here. Neither harmful nor helpful. Given the expense, and the weirdness of being in an American city patrolled by military (and not in the aftermath of a terrorist attack or other national security crisis, but just because), it's nuts to me they are still here.

I would love to hear from the mayor and police chief what they are doing about the continued drug problem. I also think off leash dogs are a real issue in my neighborhood, and know multiple people who have sustained dog bites in the last 6 months without animal control doing anything to address it. I'd love to see the city (not trump, and not the NG) address these public health and safety issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in the H street area. Crime is no better now than it was before. In particular, I've seen no improvement in drug use and it's public effects. The same "problem corners" where people use, buy/sell, and hang around on drugs exist, and neither the NG nor Trump's other efforts have done anything about it.

This problem got very bad during and immediately after the pandemic. I'd say it was already down from it's peaked (maybe 2022?) when Trump was reelected. His actions have done nothing to further improvement be it though.

The NG are totally superfluous around here. Neither harmful nor helpful. Given the expense, and the weirdness of being in an American city patrolled by military (and not in the aftermath of a terrorist attack or other national security crisis, but just because), it's nuts to me they are still here.

I would love to hear from the mayor and police chief what they are doing about the continued drug problem. I also think off leash dogs are a real issue in my neighborhood, and know multiple people who have sustained dog bites in the last 6 months without animal control doing anything to address it. I'd love to see the city (not trump, and not the NG) address these public health and safety issues.

I have likewise not seen anything concrete or tangible in terms of the city getting better. The city still has to keep imposing curfews to keep mobs of teens from brawling and harrassing people, the city still has its notorious corners and open air drug markets and tweakers holding up traffic to try and panhandle.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

The brown non-citizens weren't the ones committing most of the crime.

[Anonymous]

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.

There is no doubt crime has gone up.

[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.

There is no doubt crime has gone up.

Statistics will come out.

[Anonymous]

One less gangbanger on the streets of D.C. thanks to a MPD & federal task force response to a request from community members to patrol an area where gunshots had been heard.

https://wjla.com/news/local/officer-involved-shooting-minnesota-ave-and-nash-st-ne-northeast-dc-cardiac-arrest-fatal-injured

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One less gangbanger on the streets of D.C. thanks to a MPD & federal task force response to a request from community members to patrol an area where gunshots had been heard.

https://wjla.com/news/local/officer-involved-shooting-minnesota-ave-and-nash-st-ne-northeast-dc-cardiac-arrest-fatal-injured

I voted for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

There is no doubt crime has gone up.

Statistics will come out.

Can you trust anything that Trump and maga get their hands on?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

my coworker's car was broken into in the middle of the day in SE, so it feels the same to me.

[Anonymous]

I don't think they accomplished much but at least there was some visibility. I'm more annoyed that it was a monumental waste of millions and millions in taxpayer dollars.

But now a judge has ruled the deployments were illegal so at least the money bleed will slow down.

[Anonymous]

You know there are actual murder stats that you can view instead of judging everything by way of your personal anecdotes, right?

[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.

Are you seriously saying a place like Navy Yard - that has a juvenile curfew in place and where there have been multiple carjackings resulting in murders - felt safe? Safe compared to where? Were you walking around there at 10 am on a Sunday morning?

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/washington-dc-curfew-navy-yard-fight-nov-1-2025.amp

WASHINGTON - Washington, D.C. is enacting a juvenile curfew starting Saturday night, after "weeks of disorderly juvenile behavior," Mayor Muriel Bowser announced.

The curfew comes just one day after massive fights broke out in Navy Yard on Halloween night.