New Orleans – On Tuesday, a police official in New Orleans welcomed the possibility Publishing the National Guard In his city, she responded to suggestions high crime rates and said he was unclear about how the army was used.
Louisiana governor, Republican Jeff Landre, is asking up to 1,000 National Guard soldiers to help fight crime in his mandate, a request that comes after weeks by President Donald Trump Possibly From sending forces to New Orleans.
In a letter sent on Monday to Defense Minister Beit Higseth, Landri was martyred as “high violent crime rates” in Sharifport, Batton Rouge, New Orleans and a lack of local law enforcement. But Hans Ganteh, assistant supervisor of the New Orleans Police Department, questioned that the numbers had risen.
“Our crime rate decreases,” Gantier told reporters.
New Orleans is on its way to the lowest number of killings in more than five decades, according to the initial data from the city’s police station. There were 84 murders in 2025 as of September 27, including 14 celebrities who were killed on New Year’s Day during Truck attack on Bourbon Street. There were 124 murders last year and 193 in 2023, according to the city’s numbers. Armed robbery, strict attacks, cancer, fire, and property crimes also decreased.
On Tuesday, he speaks to an audience of American military commanders in Virginia, suggested Trump Using American cities as training reasons For the armed forces.
His recent plans to deploy the National Guard forces in Illinois and Oregon follow the crime campaign by military personnel in Colombia ProvinceThe enforcement of immigration in Los Angeles And deploy the forces Memphis. The president says that the expansion of American cities is necessary, and the bombing of Democrats crime And lax migration policies. He referred to Portland, Oregon, as “war cultivated” and threatened The power of the end of the world In Chicago.
“We cooperate well with anyone, whether it is the state police, the federal government, federal agents, various care and the National Guard, it should not be different,” Gantier said. “If they can help us, they will be doubled for our forces, welcome them.”
Landri’s request is proposed to deploy the forces on “urban centers” throughout the state under the mission “that provides logistical support and communication, and to secure critical infrastructure.” He said that the operations will follow the rules in force to use force and determine the priorities of societal awareness to ensure transparency and trust.
The head of the New Orleles City Council, JP Morrell, said during a meeting on Tuesday that he was hearing from the street performance artists and others who were concerned that the National Guard forces would disrupt the city’s traditions, such as the displays of the copper band in the streets known as the “second lines”.
“The last thing they want is that the National Guard stumbles through the second line and trying to control the crowds on their own,” said Morel.
The Republican Senator in Louisiana Bill Cassidy said that although the deployment of the National Guard in the cities of Louisiana is “not a permanent solution”, he believes it will help deter the crime.
“Increased law reduces crime, regardless of the color of the uniform,” Cassidy told reporters on Tuesday.
Possible word Publishing the National Guard forces Added to the tensions that have been growing in the Chicago region since a Federal immigration campaign It started in the third largest city in the country almost a month.
the Federal Immigration Center in ProdivioA community includes about 8,000 people west of the city of Chicago, on the front lines of the immigration process. Hundreds of detained immigrants are treated for deportation or detention in neighboring countries.
Armed immigration factors used chemical factors and Increased aggressive tactics Against the demonstrators whom the local police say they are unnecessary, dangerous for the population and are concerned with dangerous concerns.
BroadView police launched three separate criminal investigations into federal agents, including incidents that they manage and support that they fired chemicals towards a reporter.
“We are witnessing an immediate public safety crisis,” Thomas Mills, Prodio Police Chief, told reporters on Tuesday.
National Security Ministry officials rejected the claims on Tuesday that they were “false.”
In Oregon, Democratic Prosecutor Dan Rivild submitted a request to the Federal Court on Monday in an effort to temporarily prevent the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard.
The proposal is part of a lawsuit filed the previous day after the state leaders received the Ministry of Defense note, which stated that 200 members of the National Guard of the state will be placed under 60 -day federal control over “the protection of federal property, in the sites where protests occur against these jobs or may happen.”
The mayor of Portland Keith Wilson and Democratic Ruler Tina Kotik is among the local leaders who objected to publishing.
Russell Gibson in Oregon said that the forces should complete administrative treatment, which may take up to two days, in addition to three days of training in crowd control and the use of force before being published in federal buildings. He said that the forces will come from a military police unit and an infantry unit.
It was not clear whether the treatment and training will be completed in front of a hearing in the Federal Court on Friday, when the judge will hear arguments for Rivild’s proposal.
Gibson has intended that calling members of the National Guard for the mission would cost the federal government at least $ 3.8 million.
US Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi said on Tuesday about the Safe Labor Squad in Memphis, a group of about ten federal law enforcement agencies ordered by President Donald Trump to combat crime in Memphis, Tennessee, with 219 officers. Bondi said that nine arrests were held on Monday.
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Murphy mentioned from Oklahoma City. Associated Press Correspondents Sarah Klein and Stephen Smith in New Orleans; Sofia Terrin in Chicago; Adrian Sainz in Memphis; Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon, contributed to this report.