State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) addressed the possibility of President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Birmingham to fight the city's high crime rate during a conversation earlier this week on WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show."

The North Alabama lawmaker told Jackson that he believes Alabama's second-largest city needs to show visible progress to avoid the scenario, something he says is currently not happening.

"I don't know what the leadership in Birmingham is thinking," said Orr. "They have a problem; you've seen very little action in the last three to four years to address the murder rate and other crime problems. There hasn't been a whole lot done. There's been some window dressing, but getting down to the really strong, enforced policing, in my last recollection, they we

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