This morning, President Donald J. Trump announced plans to deploy federal resources to Memphis, Tennessee, as part of the Trump Administration’s aggressive push to dismantle the rampant violent crime fueled by failed Democrat governance in major cities. With Memphis enduring the highest violent crime rate in the nation, President Trump’s decisive action has already been welcomed by elected officials in the state.
It’s clear Memphis needs help:
- In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate, highest property crime rate, and the third-highest murder rate in the U.S.
- Violent crime increased in 2024, bucking the national trend.
- Memphis’s total crime rate was 344% higher than the national average.
- In 2024, Memphis’s murder rate was higher than notoriously high-crime U.S. cities — such as Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington, D.C — and roughly four times higher than Mexico City, 27 times higher than Havana, and 37 times higher than London.
- There have been 149 murders in Memphis so far in 2025.
- In 2022, Shelby County overhauled its bail system at the behest of its Soros-funded District Attorney, instituting secured cash bail “only as a last resort” and relying on a system that often results in no bail. Since then:
- An 18-year-old man involved in a shooting that killed a Memphis police officer was released without bail just one month earlier after he was arrested for auto theft, unlawful possession of a machine gun, and vandalism.