US President Donald Trump established a Memphis Safe Task Force on Sept 15, modeled after the federal law enforcement surge in the nation's capital, as part of a broader initiative he says is needed to combat urban violence.
The initiative will deploy federal agencies, including the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security and US Marshals alongside the National Guard and local law enforcement.
00:00I'm signing a presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force, and it's very important because of the crime that's going on, not only in Memphis, in many cities, and we're going to take care of all of them, step by step, just like we did in D.C.
00:30We have virtually no crime in D.C. right now.
00:33This task force will be a replica of our extraordinarily successful efforts here, and you'll see it's a lot of the same thing, although the numbers here are really something.
00:43They're really bad.
00:44Now, we did send FBI in about four months ago to work, and it brought some of the numbers down, and they did a great job, but we're sending in the big force now.
00:54We also sent them into Chicago on a sort of a moderate basis, and we brought down crime a little bit in Chicago, but we're now going to bring it down very big.
01:03We're going to be doing Chicago probably next.
01:05The task force will be a replica, as I said, and it's going to be, I think, equally successful.
01:11This is a tremendous success we've had in Washington, I can tell you, and everyone knows it, and people in the White House that work here and other people that I know are calling me and thanking me.
01:20They're going out to dinners and doing things that they haven't done in years.
01:25The effort will include the National Guard as well as the FBI, ATF, DEA, ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, and the U.S. Marshals, and more along the prosecutors.
01:37We're going to have DOJ led by a U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
01:43I had great concern, being as, from having been born and raised here, the people that live here are very, I think, self-sufficient, and I think our military and the people that we have here are very capable of taking care of what's going on here in Memphis without any outside intrusion.
02:10Everyone has been affected by the crime that's here, but it's just not in Memphis.
02:14It's all over the nation and the world, and so I think everyone is concerned.
02:19Everybody wants to live in a place where they can be safe and they can walk the streets and not have to worry about being hurt or harmed.
02:26I think it's highly unnecessary, but, I mean, I don't really think it's going to stop shit either, though.
02:33I'm going to just be honest. This is Memphis we talk about.
02:35My first thought is, is it going to be effective? How can they be everywhere all the time?
02:42Crime in Memphis isn't concentrated into one area. It is the entire city of Memphis, the whole city, and surrounding areas, Germantown, Carlyville, Bartlett, all those areas. It's everywhere.
03:05What's the nature of the state?
03:10What else is happening?
03:15We've opened up the streets and the the whole body ofventño in Hollywood.
03:16We have very high energy which means a little bit you don't like to sleep up in doors, but we rather have an opportunity for the house.
03:19We never forget to wait the things that you'll find out on town casa would sleep on campus, just five minutes to sleep on the phone.
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