Trump launches crime crackdown in Memphis
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The US President Donald Trump, joined by the Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee, has established a task force to take on crime in the city of Memphis. The Democratic-led city is the latest to face a Trump administration crackdown on crime, following Washington DC. Trump has vowed to 'fix' the city after shelving plans for a similar operation in Chicago, reportedly due to opposition from local and state officials. Memphis' mayor, Paul Young, also has voiced opposition to the plan, arguing that crime already is falling without federal intervention. The president said on Monday, however, that Memphis is 'overrun' with carjackings, robberies and shootings, as well as other crimes. Also: since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan four years ago, there's been a huge surge in childhood malnutrition - we'll bring you a special report from inside the country, and there's been foul-play at the world stone skimming championship in Scotland - allegations of cheating have 'rocked' the tournament.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Jean-Urille and at Five Hours GMT on Tuesday the 16th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.8 | Donald Trump sends a National Guard into Memphis to combat crime, |
| 0:22.2 | despite its Democratic mayor saying crime there is already falling. The U.S. President also |
| 0:27.8 | announces another deadly strike and what he says is a Venezuelan drugboat. People in Gaza City report |
| 0:34.6 | heavy, relentless bombardment by Israel, hours after the visiting U.S. |
| 0:39.1 | Secretary of State fully backs its offensive. |
| 0:44.6 | Also in this podcast, the hypothesis is the longer words use means the more effort I have to make to make that apology. |
| 0:53.6 | And the listener understands from |
| 0:56.2 | that there's greater sincerity. How to say sorry like you mean it. |
| 1:05.8 | We start in the US where President Trump, after being forced to back down over his plan to send what he said |
| 1:11.7 | would be a crime task force to Chicago after strong opposition from local and state officials, |
| 1:18.4 | has now announced he's carrying out a similar operation in Memphis in Tennessee. |
| 1:23.9 | Mr Trump compared this to his deployment last month of the National Guard and other federal forces to Washington, D.C. |
| 1:31.0 | And has indicated he hasn't given up on his plans to do the same in other cities, including Chicago, Baltimore and New York, which all have democratic black mayors. |
| 1:41.4 | The U.S. president was joined by Tennessee's Republican governor as he announced |
| 1:45.9 | this latest task force. I'm signing a presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force, |
| 1:54.2 | and it's very important because of the crime that's going on, not only in Memphis, in many |
| 1:58.9 | cities that we're going to take care of all of them, |
| 2:06.5 | step by step, just like we did in D.C. We have virtually no crime in D.C. right now. |
| 2:12.7 | The Memphis mayor, Paul Young, has voiced opposition to Mr. Trump's deployment of federal forces to his city, |
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