Trump sends Guard to DC to control crime
This was expected (I had written a previous post on the prospect). Today, Trump declared a “crime emergency” in DC and issued some EOs:
Pursuant to my authority under the Constitution and laws of the United States and the District of Columbia, I direct the Secretary of Defense to mobilize the District of Columbia National Guard and order members to active service, in such numbers as he deems necessary, to address the epidemic of crime in our Nation’s capital. The mobilization and duration of duty shall remain in effect until I determine that conditions of law and order have been restored in the District of Columbia. Further, I direct the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with State Governors and authorize the orders of any additional members of the National Guard to active service, as he deems necessary and appropriate, to augment this mission.
There also will be an effort to remove homeless camps, some of which are in traffic circles which are federal park property.
Of course, Democrats don’t like this, and they are saying that crime in DC isn’t bad and is in fact down. However:
In a report published in July, it was revealed that a D.C. police commander was recently suspended for falsifying data to improve the city’s crime statistics. …
According to sources, the conspiracy is widespread and essentially an unstated policy. The D.C. police union, which has been working to expose all this, says that multiple supervisors have been reclassifying crimes so that they don’t show up in the reports.
What a mess.
I hope the ones directly in charge reap the benefits of their ahem efforts.
This certainly appears at the outset to be a serious, sincere and well planned effort on behalf of the nation, the residents and the visitors to D.C.
Personally however, I’d be pleased to see an arrest and charges brought against the murderer of Ashli Babbit. It’s very bad for a proper respect of justice to see such a crime go off without a single damn given.
There was so much ruin wrought by procurator graves the city council and the mayor in the capitol just in the last 4 years
Remember folks there’s not nearly as many L
efties as they let on.
Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut’s contribution to the Union, pointed out that the cities with the highest murder rates—St. Louis and Memphis—are in states that voted Republican. The good Senator neglected to point out that St. Louis and Memphis have had Democrat Mayors for decades.
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My daughter is due to attend a professional conference in DC in November. She’s worried about security.
What a surprise. DC is Democrat and black. It offends me that the national capital should be so unrepresentative of the bigger picture.
Kate: if your daughter sticks to the conference, stays and supps in the conference hotel, doesn’t take the evening air outside, she will be fine.
That’s her plan. She’ll have to take the Metro in from the suburbs after visiting her sister, and then out on the Metro again to Dulles. We have advised that Metro trips must be in the middle of the day.
The DC mayor and other dems have responded by saying that crime in DC is down by 10%
That’s good, but a 10% decrease from an all time high is just a start.
Furious about the wrong things
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1954990322351567127
Kind of confused
https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1954994215957696720
Right on target
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/08/11/wow-heres-what-the-dc-police-union-just-said-about-trump-action-n2192692
There is something truly wrong with the modern left at a fundamental level.
If Trump had called the crime ” gun violence” they would have been all aboard attempts to add more rules and hurdles to law abiding people.
But mess with their street chaos base and they hate that.
Anarchy – Tyrants . That is what the Democrats are now.
Another Red State story in addition to the one linked by miguel:
https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/08/11/anchor-shuts-down-dem-dc-talking-point-with-shocking-line-about-crime-around-abc-news-bureau-n2192699
“We’ve been talking so much about the numbers and yeah, usually that’s how you play devil’s advocate, is you talk about, ‘Oh, well stats say crime is down,'” the anchor said. “However, I can tell you firsthand here in downtown D.C., where we work right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot.”
@ Jon baker – it IS gun violence, just not the kind the Democrats want to talk about. From the same RS post I just linked:
“Last year I was robbed on the street [In DC] by one of these teenage thugs,” the reporter explained to Trump and Pirro. “Had a gun. He got away with it. Let’s talk about the effort that between law enforcement, prosecutors in D.C., and judges because these kids don’t fear the police.”
Once you start reading at Red State, you will see more stories in the same vein: a gushing of support for Trump’s actions from places which in the past would never have said any such things.
https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/08/11/jeanine-pirro-nails-dc-crime-problem-after-reporter-admits-being-robbed-at-gunpoint-n2192694
In conjunction with the whistleblowers now coming forth about the CIA, FBI, DHS, etc, I would venture to conclude that they have always thought the same things, but didn’t dare say so under the Biden Regime.
I hope the Trump administration (in the form of Vance and others as successors in 2028) lasts long enough to clean things up and protect the people going off the Dem plantation; Shirehome (Open Thread) is pessimistic due to the GOP’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and that can’t be discounted, given that many Republican politicians aren’t supportive of their own platforms and policies once the rubber meets the road.
The biggest drawback for me with reading Red State and other conservative platforms is their yuuuge repetition of verbiage from the posts of their colleagues. I understand why it’s done, but it’s tiring when you read several pieces in a row.
BREAKING – as they say (9 pm EDT)
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/08/11/left-wingers-staged-a-protest-against-trumps-dc-crime-crackdown-and-then-something-shocking-happened-n2192704
[AF: have you noticed that even “serious” news platforms use the clickbait headline format?]
No other information was given, but we all know that the Left’s attention depends solely on “who? whom?” when someone is killed.
Mugging Trump’s favorite DOGE staffer seems to have been a catalyst for his actions this month (see specifically Ward Clark’s RS post today), but I suspect they have been on the WH to-do list for a long time.
I finally had to close all my DC tabs (12).
Then RS posted this confirmation that the Democrats never stop lying, no matter how many times the record is corrected.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/08/11/ex-capitol-police-chief-exposes-pelosis-lies-on-national-guard-deployment-long-past-time-to-be-honest-n2192708
Kate, maybe spring for an UBER or Taxis for her. Maye even a Limo from the Hotel to the Airport.
I watched ~ 30 minutes of Trump’s speech and was loving it, but I had to leave. It was a good thing my left-wing Democrat relatives didn’t walk in; they would have had a conniption fit!
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Jamie M. – Bugger off!
From the Pixels of Record.
https://babylonbee.com/news/dc-mayor-warns-trumps-crime-fighting-measures-will-unfairly-impact-criminals
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-vows-to-drastically-reduce-the-number-of-criminals-in-washington-by-sending-congress-home
https://babylonbee.com/news/vigilante-justice-trump-dresses-up-as-bat-and-patrols-streets-of-dc
I’m a Native Washingtonian – born in D.C., grew up there, went to school in the area, graduated from a D.C. public high school (1966), one of my degrees is from a university in D.C., worked there for over three decades (in the small D.C. private sector), both my parents are buried in D.C. Moved to the suburbs in the mid-’70s, haven’t set foot inside D.C. since 1992 and have neither plans nor any desire to do so ever again.
Until 1973 when Home Rule was granted by Congress the city was governed by three Congressionally-appointed Commissioners; trash got picked up, criminals got arrested (and convicted if the evidence warranted it – D.C. maintains its prison in Lorton, Virginia), utilities (PEPCO, city water & sewer, etc.) worked, city services ran in an orderly fashion. The decline began in 1975, very slowly at first, as it drifted farther and farther left and increasingly adopted the usual urban culture so cancerous to American cities.
The federal government has D.C. as its Constitutionally-mandated seat, and contributes funds heavily for the privilege, but the locals considered it “their city” and the feds were, and are, interlopers. The drive to create a Commuter Tax to charge the white suburbs for working in D.C. never stopped; D.C. government never has enough of Other Peoples’ Money, or its own, to do what it thinks needs to be done, but a close look at the city budget and local government operations quickly showed just how much was being used ineffectually or just plain wasted.
That Trump is seeking to reinstate federal control over D.C. is long overdue because there’s over 40 years of evidence that D.C. cannot manage itself in any reasonable manner; it will depend, however, on Congress stepping up to fully restore control and return D.C. to what it can, and always should have been, a remarkable city.
I’m not even slightly optimistic.
More like 50 years
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/youngkin-supports-trumps-liberation-day-announcement-moore-blasts-move
In response to President Trump’s Federalizing the DC police, sending in various Federal law enforcement personnel, and sending in the National Guard–all in an attempt to swiftly lower crime in D.C., D.C.’s Mayor went on TV and talked about how beautiful D.C. with all of its beautiful parks was—yeah, if you ignore all of the homeless scattered around, living under underpasses, railroad bridges, and elsewhere, the potholes in the streets, and the graffiti.
She then went on to assert that crime was actually down in D.C.
Ironically, this at the same time a story broke about how a D.C. Police officer–who was in charge of compiling crime statistics for his area–was accused of manipulating them to make it seem as if crime was going down, rather than up.
See what are more likely to be the real crime stats below.*
* See https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/08/11/how-bad-is-dc-crime-here-are-the-stats-n2661675?bcid=cbfd2ae1cbdc2cf271a2add06d636a70a7dfb4ba88e9ea774488e68c37d91ad3&lctg=29506223.
I wonder what the Feds response might be to one of those smash and grab gangs of “youts” showing up–sometimes dozens of vehicles and perhaps 50-100 youts–arriving at some D.C. location, and trying to loot some stores, and run.
Or, dozens of “youts” rushing in looting and, in the process, destroying a convenience store?
P.S. Moreover, how come I’ve never seen any stories about looters who are trying to sell that loot–say, Gucci bags, many pairs of high end sneakers, lots of big screen TVs, etc., and who are caught and prosecuted?
Nobody looking out for them?
Taking over the DC police dept. gives Trump better access to January 6 evidence.
In David Simon’s book, “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets,” the true-crime book about his yearlong ride-along with the Baltimore Homicide Division which led to the TV shows “Homicide: Life on the Streets” and then “The Wire,” Simon reports that motive is not of primary interest to detectives in solving crimes. The “why” of a murder isn’t important, not in clearing cases, anyway. The detectives concerned themselves with the evidence and informers to get to the “who” and the “how.”
Likewise, when it comes to crime in big cities, residents are not that concerned with why criminals commit crimes. When someone has their car stolen after someone wrenches them out of the drivers’ seat, the circumstances of the carjacker’s childhood or their lack of vocational opportunity are not “front of mind,” so to speak.
But it is the first thing leftist politicians think of. Dismissing the pain and monetary loss of the crime victims, they ask for the impossible: set aside your diminished circumstances and feel sorry for the perpetrators. This is not kindness, but cruelty. And it’s misplaced as well. The car was stolen to take to a chop shop to get money for drugs or weapons or some symbol of status, like a pair of Jordans, not out of existential angst. Sometimes it’s done out of mere malevolence, of wanting to be bad. It’s not striking back, it’s just striking.
The time has come for good society to reassert its tolerances, to say “no more, no matter what your problems.” And in a place like D.C., where there is so little good society, it’s up to the President to get started and embolden what little there is.
@ Bob Roberts > “Taking over the DC police dept. gives Trump better access to January 6 evidence.”
Good point, I hadn’t thought of, or seen, that angle.
However, whatever is found (or not), the Democrats (with the help of their Regime Media) will insist that Trump (1) planted anything that exonerates him or the J6 defendants; (2) destroyed anything negative about them; (3) planted anything implicating Democrats.
Take it to the bank.
If they haven’t debanked you.
What does that mean?
With D.C. Mayor Bowser at her press conference, held to respond to President Trump’s Federalization of the police force, was Police Chief Pamela Smith —according to reports, promoted to Police Chief from her former job as the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s “Chief Equity Officer.”
A reporter asked the Chief—what is the “chain of command now,” to which the Chief replied “what does that mean,” backing away from the microphone as Mayor Muriel Bowser came to her rescue. *
Yeah, the citizens of D.C., plus all it’s millions of annual visitors, are assuredly in the best of hands.
What I took from this is that Smith doesn’t even know what a “chain of command” is, much less what the new “chain of command” might be after Federalization.
* https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/08/12/dc-police-chief-stumped-by-basic-question-on-chain-of-command-n2661740