We asked D.C. residents what they think about Trump's takeover of local police and deployment of troops/federal agents, along with crime, statehood, the mayor and related issues wapo.st/45EHfZQ
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D.C. crime concerns are down sharply, continuing a decline since Spring 2024. The drops were big among Democrats and independents, White and Black residents as well as other groups wapo.st/45EHfZQ
aug 20, 2025, 1:54 pm • 8 6 • view
So Trump is using lies to justify a military takeover Washington D.C.
aug 20, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
22% of D.C. residents still cite crime as the city's top problem in an open-ended question, but that's now roughly matched by 24% who name Trump and his administration's actions. Just 12% mentioned Trump in our May poll wapo.st/45EHfZQ
aug 20, 2025, 1:58 pm • 7 1 • view
What do D.C. residents think would reduce crime? Most say boosting opportunity in poor areas, stricter national gun laws, increasing D.C. police patrols and violence interruption strategies would do so. 46% say increasing punishments for teens, 14% permanent fed control of the police wapo.st/45EHfZQ
aug 20, 2025, 2:02 pm • 5 4 • view
Trump's police takeover appears to have boosted support for D.C. statehood, which reached a record high in our Post-Schar School poll wapo.st/45EHfZQ
aug 20, 2025, 2:04 pm • 140 44 • view
Seems like D.C. statehood would require something other than the most pathetic, incompetent, reactionary, lazy, useless, inconsequential party possible opposing the Republicans. In other words, how does this happen when that opposition party is the Democrats?
aug 20, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Why does DC need to be a State vs handing the land back to Maryland?
aug 20, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Because we’re literally our own entity and culture & the boundaries have existed for a long time. Why in the world does “handing land back to Maryland” make any more sense than just creating another state officially, that already governs itself (mayor) but would just have appropriate representation?
aug 21, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
Just because a new state hasn’t been added in some time doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen And your example logically makes less sense than allowing the space that exists - that isn’t federal land - to just be its own state. 700,000 people
aug 21, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
Maryland suddenly taking over DC would mean DC residents still would lose appropriate representation. MD doesn’t have any plans in place for the 700,000 of us that live here and all the associated infrastructure and complexities The people in DC who already exist in planning and suppprtong
aug 21, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
DC needs and requirements. There is SO much more complexity behind governing and making decisions for an area with hundreds of thousands of people. Handling LAND over to a state doesn’t make those complex things go away
aug 21, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
We in DC want APPROPRIATE VOTING REPRESENTATION SO THAT WE ARE HEARD AND SEEN. suddenly having another state be in charge of us just means the SUPPORT for our basic needs and representation would have issues in other ways
aug 21, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
I live in a full-on MAGA state. I certainly know what it's like to have "taxation without representation." DC statehood should be a priority for everyone.
aug 20, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 20, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Smart analysis from Schar School dean Mark Rozell explaining how D.C. residents have reacted wapo.st/45EHfZQ
aug 20, 2025, 2:06 pm • 8 4 • view
I called it. His overreach will lead to DC statehood
aug 20, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
But Dem leaders *still* will not lift a finger to make D.C. statehood a reality.
aug 20, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view