‘Baltimore is on fire’: Residents reveal whether Trump should send National Guard to combat violent crime

Baltimore – President Donald Trump Focusing on the next criminal crackdown in Baltimore, but despite residents agreeing that the city needs to change, they still have differences on whether deploying the National Guard is the answer.

Fox News Digital spoke with 17 locals in Baltimore on Wednesday about what the National Guard deployment means for its community. While many fear that this would increase tensions and spark riots, others say these forces could become deterrents to crime.

When asked if Trump should step in and send troops to the city, the young mother Tasha, a young mother who was pushing the baby in a stroller outside the Department of Social Services, said: “Yes, I do that because now our city needs it. Baltimore is now on fire. We need as much help as possible.”

Pennsylvania resident Joseph said the National Guard presence would stop drug dealers and users from wandering the streets around his home. There was a homeless woman sleeping on his front elbow, and Fox News numbers talked to him on Wednesday.

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“I think it’s going to get better,” Joseph said.

Local radio host Daren Muhammed called Pennsylvania “zero ground zero ground”, saying “all options should be placed on the table and provide “clean up the streets he calls home.”

“My feeling is that if the federal government helps, then stupidity will refuse,” said Anthony, a Baltimore resident.

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Every Pennsylvania resident talked to Fox News on Wednesday to every resident who recognized the city’s crime problems.

More than 20 people were hospitalized A large number of drug overdose events In July Pennsylvania. at the same time, Three of the seven homicides According to local reports, in Baltimore during August, in nearby Park Heights.

Tasha stopped on the street, selling and using drugs around the corner, said in North Pennsylvania: “Everything is running here, like it didn’t even happen a month ago.”

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott celebrated a “historic decrease in violent crime” in a statement released Monday, touting 91 homicides and 218 non-fatal shootings in 2025, which he said was a 29.5% and 21% drop.

“We’re fine; we don’t need or want the National Guard in Baltimore,” Scott says In response to Trump’s potential plans, while promoting statistics that Baltimore is experiencing the lowest homicide rate in 50 years.

government Wes MooreD-Md. The same statistics have been reiterated Even invited Trump For public safety walks, pass through Baltimore.

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“As president, I would rather he clean up this criminal disaster before I go there for a walk,” Trump wrote back in the Truth Society, as the president continues to show his willingness to send troops.

The statistics prepared by the Nonprofit Institute are mere facts that Baltimore’s murder rate in 2024 remains 6.8 times the average of all metropolitan areas in the United States. If the murder rate remains the same as the murder rate in 2024, then every 38 people in the city will be in the murder case, and in their lifetime, the murder case will cause the murder case to be short-term.

“I don’t think they need to bring the troops in,” Sarah said she was homeless, an addict told Fox News Numbers. “I think it will cause a commotion. It will start a commotion.”

Sarah said she witnessed robbery, theft and shootings, but said it was “ridiculous” to send the National Guard “we are not in the war zone.”

Trayvon, a young man from Baltimore, wandered outside a CVS pharmacy in northern Pennsylvania on Wednesday, saying the National Guard “will not change St in a rebellious city,” a rebellious city that never shows love. ”

“I think anyone who lives here, through a curfew, almost somehow makes martial arts, gets the ramp closed and closes after an hour and locks to go in, literally, if you’re on that side of town, if you’re on that side of the town, if you’re on that side of that side of that side of that, I think in a few different departments, I might not have the best busyness yet, those who might not have been with those people, maybe not with those fans. Climb the ramp.

Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man from Baltimore, died in 2015 in police custody. The National Guard was deployed to Baltimore after its death, sparking protests that were plunged into riots and sparked a national debate on racism and police brutality.

“People can’t control themselves and can’t control their days,” another woman in Baltimore said in Bolton Hill. “That’s what we see now. No one will save us- Not the National Guardnot a policeman. ”

Ronette, a woman who spoke with Fox News digital numbers while passing through the Department of Social Services in Penn-North, agreed that Baltimore could take care of herself.

“We don’t need Trump to come in,” she said.

George, another Baltimore resident, said Trump’s threat to deploy troops was just a “stunt” and a woman wearing a mask outside her home in Bolton Hill said it would “increase tensions much higher than it is now.”

Will Hanna, a combat veteran from Baltimore, said the city needs federal help but not National Guard.

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“I don’t think we’re exhausting some resources as a city and a state,” Hannah said. “I think we can still bring state police here.”

Trump has Propose this idea If Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he needs help sending federal troops to Baltimore, similar to his recent troops sent to Washington, D.C. “quickly clean up crime.”

“Chicago is a hell now, Baltimore is a hell now,” Trump said earlier this month. “We have the right to do so because I have an obligation to protect this country, including Baltimore.”