"Washington D.C. went from High Crime to NO CRIME — Thank you President Trump!" reads a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump in July. The president has attributed the district's drop in crime to his deployment of the National Guard, but a recent report says otherwise.
In the year since the National Guard arrived in the nation's capital, it was mentioned in just 1.3 percent of criminal prosecutions, Reuters reported. Most Guard activity took place "near the city's core," with "little evidence" of a presence in high-crime neighborhoods. Court records show no reference to Guard troops assisting law enforcement in the neighborhoods where nearly 82 percent of the city's murders occurred in the past five years.
