EPISODE · Aug 25, 2026 · 4 MIN
A year into its D.C. deployment, the National Guard is largely missing from crime data
from WAMU: Local News · host WAMU
A year after National Guard troops arrived in Washington, D.C., a Reuters analysis finds they show up in less than 2% of the city's criminal cases. The guard are largely absent from the neighborhoods with the most violence. Reuters reporter Brad Heath tells WAMU the deployment's roughly 4,500 soldiers outnumber D.C. police,.
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