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Over 3,000 people have been arrested as part of a two-month federal crackdown in Memphis, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this week.
In September, President Trump created the Memphis Safe Task Force to target violent crime in the city, which had the highest rate for violent crime of any US city in 2024.
At a news conference this week, AG Bondi said more than 3,100 arrests have been made, and 121 missing children have been located. More than 500 illegal weapons were also seized by the federal task force, which has been working alongside state and local officials.
“Murder rates cut in half, crime rates in Memphis at their lowest level in 20 years,” said Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee at the news conference.
According to AG Bondi, homicides have dropped by almost half, as have sexual assaults. Robberies have dropped 61%.
Overall, major crime is down by 45%.
“The people of Memphis deserve to be safe,” Bondi said.
President Trump’s crime crackdown began with the deployment of National Guard soldiers and federal agents to Washington DC, and was followed by similar deployments in Los Angeles, Chicago and several other cities.
As The Epoch Times notes, “Memphis had the highest homicide rate in the United States among large cities in 2024, at 40.6 per 100,000 residents. That beat out Baltimore’s 34.8 and Detroit’s 31.2, it said.
“From 2018 to 2024, homicides in Memphis increased 33 percent, and aggravated assaults rose 41 percent, according to AH Datalytics, which tracks crimes across the country using local law enforcement data for its Real-Time Crime Index. However, AH Datalytics reported that those numbers were down 20 percent during the first nine months of this year, even before the task force got to work.”
