Nashville, Teen – President Donald Trump has released more than 2000 soldiers to the National Guard Washington, DCOn a mission that focuses on crime, and now he wants a replica of that In MemphisHowever Early plans show main differences.
Republican governor Tennessee Bell Li said that he does not expect More than 150 members of the National Guard To be sent to Memphis, although he said the numbers were not established. The city said there will be no tanks. He told me that the Guard forces would not be armed unless the local authorities demanded this.
Next week, Memphis will get the first group of additional federal officers. In the waves for weeks and months, it will come from 13 federal agencies, from immigration to drug control. He told me that the members of the guards will not make arrests.
The black majority city also offers some flagrant differences compared to capital in the country. It is four times the expansion of nearly 100,000 population.
Here is how Memphis fits Trump’s publication plan:
In increasing Tennessee, the population of Memphis decreased, with approximately 611,000 people at a distance of about 300 square miles (776 square kilometers). Washington includes about 702,000 people in about 68 square miles (176 square kilometers).
Memphis sees about half of the number of visitors annually, such as Washington, with its broader path in the areas of viewing tourist attractions. Memphis may see the forces in tourist sites.
Thadius Johnson, former Memphis police chief and older colleague in the Criminal Justice Council, worries The presence of forces Memphis’s economy can increase.
Johnson said: “Imagine a place like a Memphis who cannot actually compete when it comes to these things, they are struggling with tourism and making people come and feel safe,” Johnson said. “I am not sure if that will restore companies.”
Johnson said it is important for people to feel safe in the very visited areas, but some neighborhoods have greater needs. He pledged to me with a long -term effort, but Johnson said that if the follow -up was not enough, the situation may get worse before it improved.
I appreciated me for 150 members of the National Guard with the warning that it was not completed, and he was hesitant to repeat it. Although the authorities are from the FBI, the Anti -Narcotics Administration, the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives will be in the city starting next week, it is unclear whenever the guard members will arrive. Li also told Tennessee’s 300 highway will be in the area.
Trump commanded September 15th The creation of the Memphis Business Squad calls for “a large -scale saturation of besieged neighborhoods with law enforcement staff” and “strict enforcement of the quality of life in force, annoying laws, and public safety laws.”
He told me that members of the National Guard will be from Tennessee, the vast majority of them the military police, who were trained in the application of the law. He announced another $ 100 million from the country to obtain public safety grants to Memphis.
The mayor of Memphis Paul Young, a democratic, said that Washington city officials told him that the guard is working there more “more wide watch more than the front of the front Airlines.”
Young said He did not request the publication of the guard It is not believed that it will reduce the crime. He believes that the guard can help Memphis more through cosmetics: “cleansing more vacant, removing more garbage, and restoring more blocks.”
He also called for a federal hand in homeless services, “from housing vouchers to small homes, from job preparation to mental health support.” Housing, Health and Humanitarian Services are present in the workplace in Memphis.
Last month, Trump appeared on a radio program in Memphis, where the host Todd Starns asked him if anything that the president could do to help the city. Trump said that what they do in Washington is “a kind of test”, and by expressing Memphis, he said he was happy that Starnese mentioned the city and that he “can put it early on the list.”
Memphis was in Radar Cash Patel, director of the FBI in May, when he was called “America’s Killing Capital for the individual” in an interview with Fox News.
“I didn’t know that,” Patel said. “We have a problem there. We are now addressing it.”
He told me that Patel visited him in Tennessee in Capitol. Since May, the FBI has said that the Memphis operation has arrested about 500 people and produced 101 federal indictment regulations for violent criminals.
Then on September 12, Trump announced that he would send the National Guard to Memphis. It was mocked that Chicago was his preference, as local politicians strongly resisted his plans, but he said that the city was “very hostile” with “professional instigators”.
In Los Angeles, at the same time, Trump In June Nearly 4000 National Guard soldiers and 700 naval infantry were deployed days after Protests against immigration raids.
During the September announcement, Trump said that he decided to send forces to Memphis after the CEO of Union Pacific Jim Vena urged him – who visited the city regularly while he was on the FEDEX board – early in the week to treat the crime there.
Memphis has carried armed violence cases for years. In 2023, the city witnessed a record for more than 390 murders, and the newspapers were specified. However, Democrats and Republican officials noticed that Memphis was witnessing recent declines in some categories of crime.
Over the first eight months of 2025 compared to the same period in previous years, Memphis police stated that the total crime has reached its lowest level in 25 years, and it became in the lowest six years. Johnson said, with the Criminal Justice Council, that the city still has to provide more accuracy because the police statistics depend on the total incidents, not the number of victims.
A study conducted by the Criminal Justice Council, which amounts to about 30 to 40 American cities, found that the murder rate in Memphis was from the highest from 2018 to June 2025, and its rate was 58 % higher in the first half of 2025 compared to the first half before birth of 2019.
The Memphis Mid-2025 rate decreased by 21 % less than the peak of killing 2023.
The study found that the city outperformed others in the recent declines in the theft and theft of the reported cars, and made a medium decrease in theft, and residential and non -residential robbery. Despite the recent declines, car theft remained much higher than 2019.
Even with a decrease in average, the action remains “for crime crime at a level in which people really feel,” Young said.