BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry said he wants the National Guard to be deployed in Louisiana cities in less than a month.
“I’m hoping that we get them in by November,” Landry said.
In September, Landry officially requested the deployment of 1,000 Guardsmen in a letter to U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. He specifically mentioned Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport as cities with “elevated violent crime rates … coupled with critical personnel shortages within local law enforcement.”…