EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Executes Massive Crime Crackdown In Memphis

President Donald Trump’s federalization of Memphis, Tennessee, is proving successful with crime numbers dropping as thousands of federal agents hit the streets to make arrests, the Daily Caller has learned.

After cleaning up Washington D.C., Trump announced in early September that he would next be sending the National Guard to Memphis. He created a task force deploying other federal agencies like the FBI, ATF and DOJ to the city to focus on cracking down on crime beginning on Sept. 29.

As of Thursday, 2,213 arrests have been made during Trump’s crackdown, according to a daily police report on the effort obtained by the Daily Caller. To date, 139 known gang members have been caught, 379 firearms have been seized and 97 missing children have been found as a part of the effort.

“The numbers clearly show that Memphis is safer thanks to President Trump’s federal surge,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told the Caller in a statement.

“Our agents from the FBI, DEA, US Marshals, and ATF have done incredible work alongside HSI and local police to combat violent crime and restore safety to an iconic American city. Tolerating crime is a choice, and this Department of Justice chooses law and order,” she added.

On Thursday, the most recent day of the crackdown, 1,639 agents from 31 agencies were on the streets of Memphis making arrests, according to a daily police report on the effort obtained by the Caller. More are expected to hit the streets Friday.

During Thursday’s operation, one individual was arrested on a warrant for attempted first degree murder, a daily report obtained by the Caller shows. On Wednesday, one person was arrested on a warrant for second degree murder, that day’s report says. Other notable arrests from Wednesday’s operation included the arrest of an individual on a warrant for Rape of a Child, Aggravated Sexual Battery and Incest.

The Memphis Police Department posts crime data on the city website spanning from Oct. 1, one day after the operation began, to the current day. A 2024 column reflects the crime statistics from the same time period in the previous year, an administration official told the Caller.

Murder has dropped 52.38% comparing the time of Trump’s crackdown to the same time period last year, according to the data. Similarly, the data shows that sexual assault has dropped 55.56%, robbery has dropped 65.82%, burglary has dropped 33.98% and aggravated assault has dropped 47.30%.

Comparing data from Trump’s takeover to the same time period last year, motor vehicle theft is down 79.79%. In total, crime across those categories is down 46.65%.

On Friday, 158 National Guard agents will hit the streets to help clean up crime in Memphis, according to a daily report obtained by the Caller.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks before signing a Presidential Memorandum in the Oval Office on September 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

A month after Trump began his crime crackdown in Washington D.C., White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Caller that Trump would be open to working with Republican governors to stop crime in blue cities. (RELATED: Numbers Don’t Lie: Trump’s DC Crackdown Is Working)

“Democrats have tried to argue that red states have higher crime rates while overlooking problems of high crime in blue cities. I’m wondering if the president would consider working with red state governors to fix high crime in blue cities, like in Memphis, Tennessee,” White House correspondent Reagan Reese asked Leavitt.

“The President wants to work with anyone across this country who wants to end these horrible policies and to bring law and order to our streets, and I think that is proven by his tremendous cooperation with the mayor of Washington, D.C., and our nation’s capital, and just look at the results of that,” the press secretary said before touting statistics from Trump’s crime crackdown.