NPR-Ipsos poll: Americans don't broadly support Trump's National Guard deployments

(NPR) Americans are concerned about crime, but don't broadly support President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to police U.S. cities according to a new NPR-Ipsos law enforcement poll. The survey also shows a significant partisan divide over Trump's crime-fighting tactics.

The ongoing presence of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. has drawn protests, and a federal judge has ruled the deployment of troops to Los Angeles is illegal. Still, Trump is pushing ahead to expand the practice as a way to crack down on crime. He says Memphis, Tenn. is next.

"It's very important because of the crime that's going on not only in Memphis, in many cities, and we're going to take care of all of them, step by step, just like we did in D.C.," he said at a White House ceremony.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5553536/npr-ipsos-law-enforcement-poll-national-guard