NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday (Sept. 3) suggested a federal crime crackdown could be launched in New Orleans, citing a request by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, CNN reported.

“We’re making a determination now: Do we go to Chicago, or do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor -- Jeff Landry -- who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with the president of Poland.

“So we’re going to be going to maybe Louisiana, and you have New Orleans, which has a crime problem. We’ll straighten that out in about two weeks.”

According to statistics compiled by the Metropolitan Crime Commission , crime in New Orleans has

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