{"id":153837,"date":"2025-10-01T19:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=153837"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:52:21","slug":"louisiana-governor-requests-national-guard-for-new-orleans-baton-rouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=153837","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Louisiana governor requests National Guard for New Orleans, Baton Rouge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2025\/09\/30\/louisiana-national-guard-jeff-landry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has requested federal assistance to deploy National Guard troops to combat crime in urban centers throughout the state, weeks after President Donald Trump floated the possibility of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/09\/03\/trump-policing-red-states-new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sending troops to New Orleans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/documents\/aba4aada-e141-46e4-b2b6-4226c4de7602.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a letter dated Monday<\/a>, Landry asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for as many as 1,000 troops to be mobilized in Louisiana until September 2026, citing \u201celevated violent crime rates\u201d in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport as well as \u201ccritical personnel shortages within local law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration has deployed military force in unprecedented ways in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities, despite falling crime rates and opposition from Democratic leaders in many of the jurisdictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has requested federal assistance to deploy National Guard troops to combat crime in urban centers throughout the state, weeks after President Donald Trump floated the possibility of&nbsp;sending troops to New Orleans. In\u00a0a letter dated Monday, Landry asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for as many as 1,000 troops to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153838,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153837\/revisions\/153838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}