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Six states have now promised to send their National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. , which will result in over 1,100 new soldiers patrolling the streets. All of the states so far have Republican governors: Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ohio. The deployment follows President Trump's declaration that there is a "crime emergency" in the nation's capital.

🎧 NPR's Meg Anderson tells Up First that after looking at last year's murder rates , she found that many of the states sending troops have cities with higher crime counts than the

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