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DESCRIPTION:"Do National Guard Deployments Reduce Crime? Evidence from the 
 2025 Deployment in Washington\, DC"\, by Robert Gonzalez\, Georgia Institu
 te of Technology (Venue GL 100A)\n\nAbstract: In August 2025\, President T
 rump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to depl
 oy National Guard troops across Washington\, D.C. This paper examines the 
 short-run effects of the deployment on crime by combining administrative i
 ncident data with a triple-differences design that compares changes in cri
 me before and after the August 11 deployment across treated and untreated 
 Police Service Areas (PSAs). The intervention led to declines in robberies
 \, thefts\, and motor vehicle thefts\, while assaults with dangerous weapo
 ns increased. Other violent and property crimes were unchanged. Cost-benef
 it analysis shows total 30-day benefits of $1.7 million against costs of $
 90 million. For comparison\, an alternative community-based crime monitori
 ng program achieved higher crime-reduction benefits at less than four perc
 ent of the cost. This underscores the relative inefficiency of large-scale
  federal deployments as a crime-control strategy.\n\nShort bio: Robert Gon
 zalez is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Georgia Institute of T
 echnology. He is a development economist interested in the role of informa
 tion-communication technologies (ICTs) and the use of novel GIS data and m
 ethods to study conflict\, crime\, and public health. He earned his Ph.D. 
 in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his 
 B.A. in Economics from Florida International University. Visit his persona
 l website for more information.
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SUMMARY:Seminar (GL 100A): Robert Gonzalez 
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