Citing high crime, Trump signed an order in September deploying federal resources to the Tennessee city.
By Catholics of Catholics
In the latest effort by the Trump administration in its war on crime, the U.S. Marshals Service found and returned dozens of missing children in Memphis, Tennessee during the last weeks.
While few details were provided, the service said that during a 40-day operation, 101 children were safely returned, according to a brief Nov. 8 press release issued by the Marshals Service, according to The Epoch Times.
“We are happy that we have been able to use our fugitive hunting skills to assist local and state authorities with finding these missing children,” Emily Williams, a U.S. Marshals spokeswoman, said in a statement.
“What a testament to our partnerships to be able to work these cases together. While investigative work is tedious, locating missing and endangered children is one of the things we are most proud of.”
Memphis had the highest homicide rate in the United States among large cities in 2024, at 40.6 per 100,000 residents, according to FBI data analyzed by SafeHome.org,
Memphis beat out Baltimore and Detroit, which saw 34.8 and 31.2 homicides per 100,000 residents, respectively, the website said.
West Memphis, Arkansas, which is a suburb of about 23,000 residents just west of Memphis, had the second-highest murder rate in the United States, at 72 per 100,000 residents, according to the data.
But as Trump sent in the Guard, the Memphis Police Department said that crime in the city was at a 25-year low across several major categories, including robbery, burglary, and larceny. The homicide rate was also at a six-year low, the police force added.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Oct. 29 that federal agents had rescued about 80 missing children and arrested 1,700 people, including 126 gang members.
Citing its crime rate, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in mid-September to send in the National Guard to the city.
Trump told reporters at the Oval Office that the deployed troops would join a special task force in the city involving officials from several federal agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U.S. Marshal’s Service.
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