D.C. council member Trayon White wants National Guard to contain the city’s crime ‘cancer’
Ward 8 representative and Democrat Trayon White made his case for a military deployment during an impassioned press conference Tuesday — just feet away from where three people were gunned down over the weekend near the corner of 16 Street and Good Hope Road in Southeast.
The District has seen 13 slayings in just the first nine days of August. The 161 homicides recorded so far this year represent a 28% increase from 2022, and violent crime is up 37%, with sexual assaults, robberies, assaults with a dangerous weapon and carjackings all seeing year-over-year increases. The guardsmen largely provided technical assistance to both police and citizens at the time — for instance, they would repair police vehicles, and they would also provide lights for the community anti-crime patrols known as the “Orange Hats.”
Juvenile suspects are increasingly involved in the dangerous crimes, particularly carjackings, as judicial consequences are seldom delivered to the underage offenders. Her son was a father of four who held three jobs to support his family — one as an HVAC technician, one in the boiler room at MGM Casino and another for a water company, Ms. Satcher said. She said he had just dropped off his kids when he shot.
Ms. Jackson said the perpetrators who use guns to solve their problems are “punks,” and they’re contributing to senseless violence by indiscriminately harming everyone with their gunfire. He argued jobs programs and housing are needed on the material side, along with creating stronger ties in the community and encouraging more active parenting at home.
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