Trump says Memphis \u2018deeply troubled,\u2019 as he plans to replicate Washington, DC\u2019s federal control measures to address crime.<\/p>\n
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United States President Donald Trump says he will send National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee, to combat crime, following his administration\u2019s unprecedented police takeover in the capital, Washington, last month.<\/p>\n
Trump has sought to make crime a central issue even as violent crime rates have fallen in many cities. His crackdown on Democratic-led municipalities has spurred protests, including a demonstration by several thousand people in Washington last weekend.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled. The mayor is happy \u2026 We\u2019re going to fix that just like we did Washington,\u201d Trump told Fox News on Friday.<\/p>\n
The office of Memphis Mayor Paul Young did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters news agency for comment.<\/p>\n
Memphis, a city of 611,000 people along the Mississippi River, has one of the highest violent crime rates in the US, according to FBI statistics. Some 24 percent of residents live in poverty, more than double the national average, according to the US Census Bureau.<\/p>\n
The US Justice Department sent federal agents to help fight violent crime in the city in 2020, during Trump\u2019s first term in office.<\/p>\n
\u2018Would have preferred Chicago\u2019<\/p>\n
Trump said he might also send federal personnel to New Orleans, like Memphis, a Democratic-leaning city in a Republican-controlled state. He has threatened to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, but so far has not done so.<\/p>\n
Trump argues that crime is blighting American cities like Washington, and in recent weeks placed the US capital city\u2019s police department under direct federal control and sent federal law enforcement personnel to patrol the city\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n
Justice Department data showed violent crime in 2024 hit a 30-year low in Washington.<\/p>\n
Trump said he \u201cwould have preferred going to Chicago,\u201d where local politicians have fiercely resisted his plans, but he suggested it was a \u201chostile\u201d place with \u201cprofessional agitators\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump first deployed troops to Los Angeles in early June over Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s objections by putting the California National Guard under federal jurisdiction, known as Title 10, to protect federal property from protests over immigration raids.<\/p>\n
Besides 4,000 guard members, Trump later sent 700 active duty Marines, and\u00a0California sued\u00a0over the intervention. The guard went on to help protect officers during immigration arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump says Memphis \u2018deeply troubled,\u2019 as he plans to replicate Washington, DC\u2019s federal control measures to address crime.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3071,12,4379,3,1583,111,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-151865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-canada","21":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}