U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty released on Tuesday a campaign ad, a more than one-minute spot in which he praised the work of the Memphis Safe Task Force, the alphabet soup of federal agencies, mixed in with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Tennessee National Guard, occupying the Bluff City to allegedly crack down on crime. =
In the spot, which Hagerty posted on X, he calls Memphis “one of America’s great cities” before going on to diss Tennessee’s largest city, saying it “fell into a downward spiral” and that “families feared for their safety.”
Hagerty goes on to say it was he who empowered the task force in a voiceover with footage of armed officers. He says the results speak for themselves as he recites arrest numbers given out by the task force over the last few months…