CBS’s O’Keefe To Noem: Are There Plans To Deploy Federal Assets To Republican-Led Cities?
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said deployments of federal force to city streets to fight crime will not be restricted to “blue” cities and states, during an interview Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”
ED O’KEEFE: You mentioned, there, a bunch of cities in Democratic-controlled states with Democratic mayors, and there have been a lot of questions asked about that focus. There are Republican cities with major crime issues as well, and we haven’t heard about plans to deploy, say, to Dallas or to Oklahoma City, or to cities in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi that have considerable crime rates, in some cases higher, percentage-wise, than those other cities you mentioned. Are there plans to go to red states and Republican-controlled cities in this kind of way? SEC. NOEM: Absolutely. Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer. So we’ve got operations that, again, I won’t talk about details on, but we absolutely are not looking through the viewpoint at anything we’re doing with a political lens. It is what can we do to make sure that we’re continuing to get up every day and to fight for the American citizen, and that they have the chance to go out there and pursue the American dream.
