"To hear the president tell it, the District-now patrolled by more than 2,200 members of the National Guard and federal law-enforcement officers from roughly 10 government agencies-has gone from hellscape to paradise. "People who haven't gone out to dinner in Washington, D.C., in two years are going out to dinner," Trump said days into the surge. Along similar lines, his close adviser Stephen Miller declared that D.C. residents "are wearing their watches again.""
"Publicly available numbers provided by the District's Metropolitan Police Department indicate a decline in crime year over year in the weeks since the increased law-enforcement presence began, on August 11. A few factors make these data hard to interpret, however: D.C.'s crime was already in decline, obscuring the effect of Trump's federal surge on its own. Moreover, these numbers may yet change-"It's far too soon to be able to say anything with any confidence," Jeff Asher, an expert in crime data, told me."
Donald Trump deployed over 2,200 National Guard members and federal officers from roughly ten agencies to Washington, D.C., declaring the capital a "CRIME FREE ZONE." Metropolitan Police Department figures show year-over-year declines in reported crime since the surge began on August 11, but preexisting downward trends complicate attribution. Crime-data expert Jeff Asher warns that it is too soon to draw confident conclusions. Local officials have reduced cooperation with some federal agencies and the president's emergency authority expired on September 10. A prolonged federal presence risks disrupting daily life, straining police-community relations, and producing only temporary reductions in crime.
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