- Thousands of National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C. by Donald Trump have been involved in only 1.3 percent of the city's criminal cases, according to a Reuters report.
- The deployment cost $223 million by the end of 2025 and is projected to cost an additional $1.4 billion through January 2029.
- An analysis of court documents found that soldiers mostly responded to whiter and wealthier neighborhoods rather than areas with high murder rates.
- Out of 217 criminal cases mentioning the Guard, soldiers stopped suspects single-handedly in just 62 instances, often for minor crimes like shoplifting.
- While the White House claimed the deployment lowered crime, Metropolitan Police Department data showed violent crime actually rose 4 percent from 2025 to 2026.
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Trump deployed thousands of National Guard in DC - but they aren’t stopping any crime
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