Violent crime has plunged in Memphis one year after President Donald Trump launched a federal crackdown in the Tennessee city, with murders down 37% and robberies down 47%.
Sexual assaults are down 30% and aggravated assaults are down 29% since the Memphis Safe Task Force began operations in September 2025, according to U.S. Marshals Service data provided to The Daily Wire.
The operation has resulted in 13,140 arrests, including 135 for murder, 1,406 for drug crimes, 1,303 for gun offenses, and 125 for sex offenses, according to the Marshals Service data.
Authorities also arrested 1,461 known gang members, seized 2,201 firearms, and located 189 missing children. Another 421 of those arrested were juveniles.
“President Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force has driven down violent crime in a city that was failed by extreme Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told The Daily Wire.
“The Task Force has made more than 13,000 arrests including murderers, sex offenders, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals and has seized more than 2,200 illegal firearms,” Bis continued. “President Trump restored law and order and made Memphis safe again.”
Trump launched the task force last year, bringing federal agencies together with state and local law enforcement, the Tennessee National Guard, and Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s administration.
Attorney General Todd Blanche said the coordinated approach has helped authorities remove violent offenders from Memphis’ streets.
“The Memphis Safe Task Force has brought Memphis back to life,” Blanche told the outlet. “In just one year, this coordinated effort has taken the keys to Memphis away from violent criminals and put them back in the hands of the law-abiding citizens who call this city home.”
“Thanks to President Trump, Memphis is on its way to becoming the safest city in America,” Blanche added.
The U.S. Marshals Service highlighted several arrests as the task force marked its first anniversary, including that of China White, 25, an alleged gang member charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder stemming from a July 2020 killing.
Authorities also arrested Alex Rodriguez, 52, a Honduran migrant in the country illegally who was wanted on charges of child rape and aggravated sexual battery.
The Memphis crackdown came after the Trump administration launched a similar federal law enforcement effort in Washington, D.C. That operation has resulted in more than 16,000 arrests, including 35 murder suspects, according to The Daily Wire.
Trump then brought the approach to Memphis, where federal, state, and local authorities have spent the past year targeting violent offenders, gangs, and illegal firearms.
Citing what he called the “immediate success” of the D.C. operation, U.S. Marshals Service Director Gadyaces Serralta told The Daily Wire that the approach has “been even more successful in Memphis.”