US military preparing to surge National
Guard troops to Washington DC to fight
local crime and youth violence: report
New York Post,
by
Zoe Hussain
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
8/11/2025 6:19:30 AM
The US military is preparing to activate hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, DC as a part of President Trump’s sweeping federal crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital, according to authorities.
Trump has yet to make a final decision about the activation of federal troops, but the National Guard is currently readying to deploy them, two US officials with knowledge of the operation confirmed to Reuters.
The preparation comes as 120 FBI agents from across the country have already begun patrolling DC streets overnight and backing up area cops at carjacking hot spots, despite many lacking local patrol work training, The Washington Post reported.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/11/2025 6:27:34 AM (No. 1989098)
Troops going to Washington DC ought to get combat pay.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/11/2025 6:40:30 AM (No. 1989101)
I don't believe for one second the claims of local officials and the media that crime in DC is way down across the board. It might be down for lack of prosecution or lack of reporting or just outright lying, but crime in DC never goes anywhere but up, and I'm curious to see what results the National Guard has
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 8/11/2025 6:52:53 AM (No. 1989106)
This really needs to be done nationewide from the looks of things these days.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/11/2025 6:58:14 AM (No. 1989108)
Local patrol training not necessary. Spot more than two teens out after midnight, check for weapons, haul them in for questioning and ask them who their daddy is. Drive fancy cars around their neighborhoods with well-armed soldiers in the back seat. Boot Muriel Bowser out and get a real mayor.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 8/11/2025 7:28:59 AM (No. 1989125)
Its going to make some great videos when some ghetto arboreal holds his 9mm crunchenticker sideways and tries to shoot a soldier while running away and shooting backwards. The lead poisoning will be instant and entertaining.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/11/2025 7:43:19 AM (No. 1989131)
The wrong move IMO. There care federal police all around DC that are sitting on their asses use them. Park Police ,Capitol Police, Park Rangers, Metropolitan Police. The problem is with the Judiciary, and allowing the perps to roam free on bail and light sentences.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/11/2025 8:11:26 AM (No. 1989149)
And this will be an utter failure if - God forbid - some soldier has to shoot a minor - even if to defend themself. And without prosecution and punishment after arrest, it will not matter anyway. Voters must wake up from being 'woke' and MUST hold accountable the DimoTwits they have elected who have only brought misery instead of help. And even more importantly, America needs to turn back to God with all that that entails especially the restoration of marriage and family.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 8/11/2025 8:42:54 AM (No. 1989164)
Much of the crime committed in DC is carried out by young thugs from PG County, MD, so if he's going to surge troops into DC, he should probably surge them into Maryland as well.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TCloud 8/11/2025 8:57:31 AM (No. 1989168)
Street toughs...meet you match!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
VietVet68 8/11/2025 9:05:17 AM (No. 1989170)
Seeing as the vast majority of crime committed in DC is committed by African Americans how long will it be before the race card pops up and they're trying to cast Trump as a racist? I'm beginning the countdown now.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/11/2025 9:14:12 AM (No. 1989176)
So when government employees are injured or in danger, we need to counter with force and send in the guard. Every other dem run city has the same problems, many even worse on a per capita basis, so are we going to send in the guard in every city?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/11/2025 9:44:17 AM (No. 1989190)
Sounds like a good idea to me...the troops won't ask the criminals age before they get arrested..so the hiring of young people to steel cars to be sold or stripped for parts is gonna move outside Washington DC....watch out Maryland and Virginia....and WE get our Capitol back...the shining city on the hill...thank you President Trump for having the courage to buck the system of Pelosi and Schummer....and restore our city....on the hill.....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trump Won 8/11/2025 9:50:16 AM (No. 1989196)
Da yuths in DC dindonuffin.
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Despite the fact that Washington, DC's curfew law requires persons aged 17 and under to be off the streets by 11:00 PM, "youths" commit much of its late night and early morning crime. Many of them travel into and around Washington on the DC Metro subway system. Posting National Guard personnel at subway entrances to enforce the curfew from 11:00 PM to closing time (12:00 PM weekdays, 2:00 AM weekends) would cost effectively reduce these crimes.
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bonus: since dc is under federal control there should be no problem
with complying with retainers on illegal aliens
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
danu 8/11/2025 11:45:48 AM (No. 1989248)
el salvador is nice for the young'uns this time of year
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/11/2025 12:52:48 PM (No. 1989301)
Orders: "Fix bayonets and insert one-each 30-round magazine loaded with type M193, 55-grain, full metal jacket rounds of ammunition... and remember, be safe out there."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/11/2025 12:54:28 PM (No. 1989304)
Wait for it - the people who will scream the loudest about this are the same people who were just dandy with the NG being deployed in DC for Pedo Joe’s inauguration. The troops were forced to sleep in parking garages and were kept in the city for months.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
tangles 8/11/2025 1:56:22 PM (No. 1989356)
It time to put the little thugs in the same cell with their parents!
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high upside potential if done well
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