A liquor store employee working in the nation's capital said he has noticed some relief from the late-night violence he used to regularly witness, but fell short of attributing it to President Donald Trump's federal takeover of Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, others working in the nation's capital expressed mixed feelings about the presence of National Guards on the streets.

Following a high-profile incident earlier this month, during which a former DOGE-employee was severely beaten in an attempted carjacking, Trump directed the Secretary of Defense to mobilize the D.C. National Guard and federal law enforcement officers from a range of different agencies to help fight crime in the nation's capital that Trump described as "out of control."

"It was a little dicey at times," said the general

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