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What’s Behind the Latest National Guard Surge in D.C.

by Will Gottsegen  The Atlantic Daily  July 10, 2026 Donald Trump summoned the National Guard to Washington, D.C., last August in an attempt to “rescue” the city from “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” Since then, the number of soldiers in the capital has ebbed and flowed as states have lent their own Guardsmen to the cause. A month ago, there were just under … Continue reading What’s Behind the Latest National Guard Surge in D.C.

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Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol in Washington

Jeffrey A. Butts, executive director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, noted that even in Washington, federal resources are not actually being targeted where they would make the most difference, in high-crime neighborhoods far from the photogenic monuments and government buildings where National Guard troops are patrolling. Continue reading Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol in Washington

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