National Guard in DC

[MajorRewrite]

The National Guard troops in DC increased this year to more than 4,500.

No impact on violent crime …

While homicides are down this year, violent crime is actually up compared to 2025, according to data from the city.

Multiple studies have since found that the National Guard presence in D.C. has had no effect on violent crime.

Big cost …

A report last year by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that this deployment costs about $600 a day per guard member, meaning at the current troop levels, it costs roughly $3 million per day.

The Pentagon recently told Congress extending the deployment will cost an additional $1.4 billion. A recent estimate from the nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog Project on Government Oversight found the total cost of the deployment until 2029 to be around $3 billion.

Amen to that …

"Armed military personnel standing on the street corners in an American city should never be normal."

Conspiracy minded people might wonder why Trump wants so many troops in DC for the midterms?

 

[ll74]

The National Guard troops in DC increased this year to more than 4,500.

No impact on violent crime …



Big cost …



Amen to that …


Conspiracy minded people might wonder why Trump wants so many troops in DC for the midterms?

Are you insinuating something? If so, what?

 

[WinSomeLuzSome]

Cute, NPR as a source?

 

[WinSomeLuzSome]

and the "source" they "rely" on is worthless https://www.niskanencenter.org/about/

 

[ll74]

Cute, NPR as a source?

Do you have conflicting sources?

 

[ll74]

Trump proving that he's still an authoritarian.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Probably for when rogue FBI agents try to instigate a riot again.

 

[njlauren]

Trump proving that he's still an authoritarian.
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More like proving he is batshit crazy. If the psychiatric profession didn't hide like a bunch of cockroaches, they would be openly saying he is nuts, because he is. His rants are literally unhinged. If he was a normal right wing nutjob, he would cite the organization that he claims lies, and try to cite something to refute it; but not trump, he rants about Soros and Fauci and Hillary Clinton, he is talking like my mother in law, who was a paranoid schizophrenic who had psychotic episodes, used to talk after having one.

 

[ll74]

More like proving he is batshit crazy. If the psychiatric profession didn't hide like a bunch of cockroaches, they would be openly saying he is nuts, because he is. His rants are literally unhinged. If he was a normal right wing nutjob, he would cite the organization that he claims lies, and try to cite something to refute it; but not trump, he rants about Soros and Fauci and Hillary Clinton, he is talking like my mother in law, who was a paranoid schizophrenic who had psychotic episodes, used to talk after having one.

My statement was accurate.

 

[icanhelp1]

https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime

Seems to be some improvement.

 

[Lazaran]

Conspiracy minded people might wonder why Trump wants so many troops in DC for the midterms?

DonOld apparently wants them there through the rest of his term…



The 2028 presidential election will likely be more fraught than the midterms. The midterms are just the bellwether / harbinger for 2028.



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

what is this

the vietnam war during the 1960s

 

[Bray123]

Trump proving that he's still an authoritarian.
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Yes Gramps, here's your spoon; eat your porridge.

 

[CuriousCat89]

Trump proving that he's still an authoritarian.
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I can't believe someone who writes like this is able to hold any elected office. What a fucking joke.

 

[CuriousCat89]

Do any of you posting in this thread live in DC?
Have any of you posting on this thread ever lived in DC?