The National Guard presence in Washington hasn’t put a dent in violent crime in the nation’s capital. At least, that’s the reality for the families of local murder victims, who claim that the Trump administration is ignoring their plight in order to push a narrative that crime has been practically eradicated from Washington, D.C. There were at least 128 murders in the nation’s capital over the course of 2025, according to data from the Metropolitan Police Department. One of those murders