In response to the rising crime rates in our nation’s capital, President Trump decided to post the National Guard in Washington for 30 days to assist local law enforcement. The move seems to be paying off handsomely. Of course, poll questions asking members of Congress if the District of Columbia actually feels safer seem to break along party lines. Still, the move has been successful enough that Trump is now mulling over deploying National Guard troops in Chicago to combat the same sense of lawlessness and despair in the Windy City.
Reagan Reese is the White House correspondent for The Daily Caller, and until recently lived in Washington. She appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to say she knows from experience that it’s more than mere perception that crime in the District is up.
“I can speak to this,” Reese told host Larry Mendte. “I moved from Capitol Hill out of the city to Virginia because I wasn’t feeling safe in D.C. anymore, and this happened maybe, like, three or four months ago. Just had a crime scare myself, an attempted break-in at my house on Capitol Hill, no longer felt safe, so I moved to Virginia. So, when the President said he needs to crack down on crime and people started freaking out, saying, ‘Oh, D.C.’s not as bad as you think it is’, it absolutely is… I don’t spend a ton of time in the city, quite frankly, anymore because of just how unsafe it has gotten, but I have heard from a lot of my colleagues who do live around the city, and they feel a lot safer.”
Reese added that the media meltdown leads her to believe that Trump’s National Guard initiative may be the right thing to do: “I personally think the word ‘takeover’ is cool. I use ‘crackdown’ a lot when I talk about it, but it does feel like he’s taking over the city in the sense that he’s taking it back from the criminals who’ve been on the streets.”
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