In the days since the president deployed hundreds of National Guard troops and federal agents to patrol city streets, crime has continued to drop in Washington. The question is whether the trend will last.

Local politicians, along with people who study crime for a living, say probably not.

In Washington, local elected officials have called President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight street crime a power grab — just a temporary show of force unlikely to produce any durable reductions in crime, since leaving hundreds of troops on the ground indefinitely is unsustainable.

If the president is interested in long-term solutions, experts suggested a number of other ways the federal government could help drive down crime rates in a more lasting way, from funds for trainin

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