National Guard fighting crime wave in DC

27 August 2025, 18:29

Mike Mitchell

By picking up trash and landscaping.

Wonder how much this is costing the taxpayers?

https://www.washingtonpost.com...oval-trump-takeover/

27 August 2025, 18:47

MJines

From the reports I have heard from people in DC, most of the NG is deployed on and around the Mall . . . no where near the high crime areas in DC. I continue to believe it is a test. Trump wants to test the waters on how far the MAGAts are willing to ride with him on militarizing major cities (which happen to be the blue dots on election return maps) in advance of 2026 and 2028. So far, the MAGAts have demonstrated they continue to be blissfully ignorant.

27 August 2025, 19:32

ANTELOPEDUNDEE

Why don't they go in and root out the gangs? I bet there would be some shootouts. Isn't that what some of them want, the ones with itcy trigger fingers?

27 August 2025, 20:01

theback40

Not all the guard.
I talked to a teacher friend. She's a Filipino teacher in Brentwood.
She has been going in to get set up, and noticed a big reduction in the street corner toughs. The kids that have come in to school early to help, are much less stressed she said.
She has hopes for a good start for students. But, she said the only time poor kids count is when political points can be made on them.

27 August 2025, 23:09

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by theback40:
Not all the guard.
I talked to a teacher friend. She's a Filipino teacher in Brentwood.
She has been going in to get set up, and noticed a big reduction in the street corner toughs. The kids that have come in to school early to help, are much less stressed she said.
She has hopes for a good start for students. But, she said the only time poor kids count is when political points can be made on them.

Since when was the NG deployed in Brentwood?

27 August 2025, 23:20

theback40

Outskirts Mike, She drives in. It's the northeast part of DC. Still DC, ward 7 or 8, I forget which.

28 August 2025, 03:04

ledvm

The people is DC are loving it.

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28 August 2025, 03:08

jeffeosso

quote:
Originally posted by theback40:
Outskirts Mike, She drives in. It's the northeast part of DC. Still DC, ward 7 or 8, I forget which.

Man that was a tough Google search. Hard I tell you.
Just put Brentwood dc into Google and got this
Brentwood https://share.google/NkpCshiqD0bb85oKc

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28 August 2025, 04:20

theback40

Should I have called it metro area?
I dont understand why the confusion, it's part of DC.

28 August 2025, 04:31

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
quote:
Originally posted by theback40:
Outskirts Mike, She drives in. It's the northeast part of DC. Still DC, ward 7 or 8, I forget which.

Man that was a tough Google search. Hard I tell you.
Just put Brentwood dc into Google and got this
Brentwood https://share.google/NkpCshiqD0bb85oKc

Another tough google search would tell you that there are no NG troops deployed there.

"There are no specific reports of National Guard troops being deployed in the Brentwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C., as of August 27, 2025."

As noted previously, they're deployed around the Mall. Where, again, as noted previously, the crime wave is so prevalent that they have been deployed to pick up trash and rake leaves.

28 August 2025, 04:42

MJines

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

. . . I guess that is why 80% oppose it.

8 of 10 DC residents oppose DC federal take over

28 August 2025, 04:52

ANTELOPEDUNDEE

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

28 August 2025, 05:27

theback40

Wrong, a google search shows they are in all the metro areas.
Cant give you more specifics, as google didnt give me any, other than yes, they patrol there.

28 August 2025, 06:19

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

I'm seeing zero reporting of any?

You got something different?

28 August 2025, 06:30

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

I'm seeing zero reporting of any?

You got something different?

The photos I see show them picking up trash. Not arresting gang-bangers. I might have missed something.

28 August 2025, 06:33

Mike Mitchell

It's stupid. A trump stunt. Just like everything he does.

28 August 2025, 06:39

medved

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
It's stupid. A trump stunt. Just like everything he does.

you cant say so he is doing the best for your country ...

28 August 2025, 06:56

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by medved:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
It's stupid. A trump stunt. Just like everything he does.

you cant say so he is doing the best for your country ...

You can't be serious. That would be Lane. Hypnotized cult member.

29 August 2025, 02:09

ledvm

quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

Actually a bunch. It is actually safe to go to Union Station. The people that actually work in DC are digging it big time.

29 August 2025, 02:10

ledvm

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

I'm seeing zero reporting of any?

You got something different?

The photos I see show them picking up trash. Not arresting gang-bangers. I might have missed something.

Because like always your dumb ass looks in unreliable places.

29 August 2025, 02:41

MJines

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

Actually a bunch. It is actually safe to go to Union Station. The people that actually work in DC are digging it big time.

. . . prove it.

29 August 2025, 03:08

jeffeosso

quote:
Originally posted by MJines:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

Actually a bunch. It is actually safe to go to Union Station. The people that actually work in DC are digging it big time.

. . . prove it.

Mayor Bowser said

quote:
"MPD has been doing the job with community and all of their partners in government to drive down violent crime in the District of Columbia," Bowser said. "We have, in fact, experienced a 26% decrease, and that's on top of the 35% decrease we saw in violent crime last year. Having said that, we never take our foot off the gas, and we're never satisfied with any level of crime."

The DC mayor says it's working, mike ... but you are a corporate lawyer, not a criminal one ...

man, that's gotta sting

29 August 2025, 03:18

theback40

Heard her on NPR. She's almost giddy with crime going down. Makes her look good.

29 August 2025, 03:22

jeffeosso

"what's the chain of command"

NOT ai

https://youtu.be/b77gUYH17m4?t=1327 - just 30 seconds

29 August 2025, 03:50

TomP

quote:
Originally posted by theback40:
Heard her on NPR. She's almost giddy with crime going down. Makes her look good.

I haven't been there in ages, so don't know. It does sound like she's saying what Trump wants to hear...

29 August 2025, 03:53

jeffeosso

quote:
Originally posted by TomP:
quote:
Originally posted by theback40:
Heard her on NPR. She's almost giddy with crime going down. Makes her look good.

I haven't been there in ages, so don't know. It does sound like she's saying what Trump wants to hear...

the dem mayor of the most dem district in the US wants trump to be happy?

29 August 2025, 03:58

TomP

quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
quote:
Originally posted by TomP:
quote:
Originally posted by theback40:
Heard her on NPR. She's almost giddy with crime going down. Makes her look good.

I haven't been there in ages, so don't know. It does sound like she's saying what Trump wants to hear...

the dem mayor of the most dem district in the US wants trump to be happy?

I doubt that, but she's under his thumb, more or less.
Most of his underlings get the picture sooner or later.

Except Rex Tillerson, who didn't have to care.

29 August 2025, 04:00

jeffeosso

fair enough --

I love governor fatso (like chris christy with black hair) says that federal action will be met with "a response" ..well, i guess rolling over and playing possum is "a response" ...

29 August 2025, 08:36

Bill Leeper

quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
fair enough --

I love governor fatso (like chris christy with black hair) says that federal action will be met with "a response" ..well, i guess rolling over and playing possum is "a response" ...

Kinda like one of those fainting goats?

29 August 2025, 14:09

jeffeosso

quote:
Originally posted by Bill Leeper:
quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
fair enough --

I love governor fatso (like chris christy with black hair) says that federal action will be met with "a response" ..well, i guess rolling over and playing possum is "a response" ...

Kinda like one of those fainting goats?

29 August 2025, 14:57

jeffeosso

DC mayor says Trump federal law enforcement surge is reducing crime https://share.google/0t8r9lg9wUXxiMIpB

31 August 2025, 07:26

TomP

quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
DC mayor says Trump federal law enforcement surge is reducing crime https://share.google/0t8r9lg9wUXxiMIpB

I suspect that criminals are taking a vacation while this goes on. Trump has the attention span of a fruit fly, and things will soon go back like there were. They can wait him out...

31 August 2025, 08:53

ledvm

What I can’t figure is why y’all don’t want him to have success in cleaning up DC. Seems like we should all be rooting for success.

31 August 2025, 14:19

Saeed

Exactly what they are good for.

As ordered by

31 August 2025, 19:33

jeffeosso

quote:
Originally posted by TomP:
quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
DC mayor says Trump federal law enforcement surge is reducing crime https://share.google/0t8r9lg9wUXxiMIpB

I suspect that criminals are taking a vacation while this goes on. Trump has the attention span of a fruit fly, and things will soon go back like there were. They can wait him out...

DC had had more murder free days than the length of the Texas runaways ... and 1000,+ of the impact

31 August 2025, 20:41

ANTELOPEDUNDEE

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

Actually a bunch. It is actually safe to go to Union Station. The people that actually work in DC are digging it big time.

I assume they have confiscated bushel baskets full of guns and drugs, but I haven't heard anything about it in the media.

31 August 2025, 20:58

jeffeosso

quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
The people is DC are loving it.

I bet they are. How many gangbangers and drug dealers have they dragged off of the streets?

Actually a bunch. It is actually safe to go to Union Station. The people that actually work in DC are digging it big time.

I assume they have confiscated bushel baskets full of guns and drugs, but I haven't heard anything about it in the media.

like 100+ guns and way over 1,000 arrests, no clue on drugs

31 August 2025, 22:08

Mike Mitchell

Worth every penny of the $2.3mm a day it is costing us.

>>>While the two-week effort has turned up guns and drugs, records from Washington’s Superior Court show it has also included federal agents converging in large numbers on low-level crimes such as marijuana use and public alcohol consumption, cases that have seldom been a priority for U.S. law enforcement agencies tasked with targeting drug traffickers and gunrunners.<<<

https://www.reuters.com/legal/...offenses-2025-08-27/

31 August 2025, 22:16

jeffeosso

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Worth every penny of the $2.3mm a day it is costing us.

>>>While the two-week effort has turned up guns and drugs, records from Washington’s Superior Court show it has also included federal agents converging in large numbers on low-level crimes such as marijuana use and public alcohol consumption, cases that have seldom been a priority for U.S. law enforcement agencies tasked with targeting drug traffickers and gunrunners.<<<

https://www.reuters.com/legal/...offenses-2025-08-27/

oh man .. luv ya mike, but i have to take the shot

a LAWYER complaining about the cost of legality ?

01 September 2025, 09:15

MJines

Wonder how the statistics being touted by the Administration compare to the “normal” statistics. Disingenuous to attribute every arrest or seizure to the NG, when arrests and seizures were made before the NG presence too.