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(NewsNation) — Tennessee officials expect to larn much details this week astir President Donald Trump's plans to deploy National Guard members to Memphis, which helium announced during a TV interrogation past Friday.
Democratic Mayor Paul Young said Trump's comments were the first confirmation helium received of the upcoming anti-crime cognition successful the city, which the president has described arsenic "deeply troubled."
Memphis recorded the highest transgression rate per 100,000 radical past year, according to FBI data. That includes murder, rape and robbery. Data shows 2,501 convulsive crimes per 100,000 radical recorded past year.
But earlier this month, the Memphis Police Department besides noted progress: "Overall transgression is astatine a 25-year low, with robbery, burglary, and larceny besides reaching 25-year lows. Murder is astatine a six-year low, aggravated battle astatine a five-year low, and intersexual battle astatine a twenty-year low."
City constabulary person said wide transgression has decreased by 22% compared to past year.
Democratic Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris — whose jurisdiction includes Memphis — opposed Trump's plans connected societal media.
"The President sending troops to Tennessee volition interfere and person a chilling effect connected Tennesseans' quality to workout captious freedoms, specified arsenic the state to protestation and the liberty to travel," Harris wrote.
Young besides said helium believed Trump's program was not the close move, but did not vow to effort to halt it.
“I bash not enactment the National Guard — however, they are coming. It’s not the mayor’s call,” Young said.
A spokesperson for Republican Gov. Bill Lee said much conversations with Trump's bureau volition instrumentality spot this week.
Trump has appeared to acceptable his sights connected Memphis arsenic National Guard troops stay connected the crushed successful Washington, D.C., and Chicago has seen a surge successful national immigration enforcement.
