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Trump Crime Strategy May Work for Now, but Not for Long, Experts Say

By Tim Arango

Aug. 31, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

In the days since the president deployed hundreds of National Guard troops and federal agents to patrol city streets, crime has continued to drop in Washington. The question is whether the trend will last.

Local politicians, along with people who study crime for a living, say probably not.

In Washington, local elected officials have called President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight street crime a power grab β€” just a temporary show of force unlikely to produce any durable reductions in crime, since leaving hundreds of troops on the ground indefinitely is unsustainable.

β€œThe reason that surges are not particularly effective, and are generally disfavored by crime researchers and others who look at this stuff for a living, is because it’s a resource-intensive way of temporarily reducing crime,” said Thomas Abt, director of the Center for the Study and Practi...

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