After a D.C. homicide, the neighborhood is split on Trump's crime crackdown

in the neighborhood where Washington saw its first homicide in nearly two weeks, residents are divided over the value of Trump's surge of federal law-enforcement forces into the city.

WASHINGTON — In the neighborhood where Washington saw its first homicide in nearly two weeks early Tuesday, residents are divided over the value of President Donald Trump's surge of federal law enforcement forces into the city.

NBC News talked to more than a dozen people Tuesday who live and work in the area surrounding the 300 block of Anacostia Road in Southeast D.C., where, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, city officers had responded to a fatal shooting shortly after midnight. It was the first homicide reported in D.C. since Aug. 13.

On Tuesday afternoon, after schools had let out for the day, more than a half-dozen children were hanging out on the front steps of an apartment complex on the block where the shooting occurred.

The local response to Trump's "federal takeover" of D.C. was mixed, with some crediting him for taking an active interest in public safety in the city and others criticizing him for a buildup they described as unnecessary or aimed at the wrong parts of the city.

“I really don’t have no problem with police presence,” said Brian Williams, 56, who reported seeing National Guard, FBI and local police forces in the neighborhood. “It’s much-needed in certain neighborhoods of the district. Not all of them is needed, but some of them is needed.”