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What have Trump’s troops done for crime in D.C.?

From August 11 to October 11, President Donald Trump ordered National Guard troops and federal agents into Washington, D.C., claiming the deployment `wiped out crime` while The Trace’s Gun Violence Data Hub estimates fewer than one shooting-victim difference citywide.
The Guard was placed in downtown tourist areas while federal agents patrolled higher-crime neighborhoods and made quality-of-life arrests, with critics saying interventions reflected political showdowns, not public-safety data.
Trace analysis shows a two-thirds year-over-year drop in shootings, with 41 people shot, 10 fatally, from August 11 to October 11, and September counted 16 shot, two fatally in Washington, D.C.
The operation cost over $1,000,000 a day, and Washington’s attorney general warned the National Guard could remain until next summer as families and children in Washington, D.C., stay home from work and school.
In recent weeks, federal agents pulled back and shootings ramped up again, violence interrupters said suppression seemed temporary, and experts such as Thomas Abt cautioned two months is a small sample.

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