MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It's been two weeks since the National Guard landed in Memphis to help fight crime, and you may have spotted them on Beale Street, in Tom Lee Park and walking in neighborhoods.

But what exactly are they doing here?

"I have not seen them. But I hear on the news they are catching a lot of criminals," said Rodney Childress, a Nutbush neighborhood resident. • National Guardsmen in downtown Memphis on Oct. 14. (Tyler Chow, WREG) • Law enforcement in camouflage seen walking on Riverside Drive at Tom Lee Park on Friday morning. (Jessica Gertler, WREG) • Courtesy of TN National Guard

We have seen them around the downtown area, often with police officers, so we asked police specifically how the Guard is helping them, since they aren't making arrests.

Memphis Police sent u

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