Trump Signs Order To Send National Guard To Memphis For Crime Crackdown

President Donald Trump signed a memo Monday establishing a task unit successful Memphis, Tennessee, that would mobilize nan National Guard and different national rule enforcement agencies to ace down connected crime, similar to steps taken successful Washington, D.C.

“The effort will see nan National Guard, arsenic good arsenic nan FBI, ATF, DEA, ICE, Homeland Security Investigations and nan U.S marshals and more,” Trump said successful nan Oval Office.

“This squad will deploy nan afloat powers of national rule enforcement agencies and enforcement mostly to reconstruct nationalist information and get vulnerable profession criminals disconnected of our streets,” he added.

Speaking to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, who joined him successful nan Oval Office for the memo-signing, Trump said he expected crime rates to driblet "in 4 aliases 5 weeks, possibly sooner."

"You're going to spot numbers that will driblet and plummet for illustration you haven't — conscionable for illustration we did successful D.C., they plummeted," Trump said.

Lee said Tennessee is "very hopeful and excited astir nan imaginable of moving that metropolis forward."

“‘I’m tired of crime holding nan awesome metropolis Memphis back,” he added.

Trump said Friday that he planned to nonstop national rule enforcement and National Guard troops into Memphis, calling nan metropolis "deeply troubled."

Police Chief CJ Davis said past week that Memphis has seen "historic reductions" successful crime rates, including a execution complaint that had dropped to a six-year low.

Memphis is nan latest successful a increasing database of cities tally by Democrats that are targets for national involution by nan Trump administration.

Trump besides said Monday that St. Louis would beryllium among nan cities wherever he plans to initiate a national crackdown connected crime.

"We want to prevention these places," Trump said, referring to Chicago and St. Louis, noting that Chicago was "probably next."

Trump has besides suggested that he could send national troops to New Orleans.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, sued nan Trump management complete akin efforts to deploy nan National Guard successful consequence to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations successful Los Angeles, arguing Trump had federalized troops without his consent aliases input.

A national judge this period recovered that Trump's usage of troops successful Los Angeles was illegal because it violated a rule prohibiting nan usage of soldiers for civilian rule enforcement activities. The lawsuit is nether appeal.