A Memphis mother says President Donald Trump’s federal crime crackdown silenced the gunfire that years of pleas to local leaders could not and finally allowed her children to play outside.

“For once, I’m walking to my mailbox and it’s quiet,” Dalisia Ballinger told Fox News Digital. “I’m hearing the birds chirp. I’m hearing the birds sing. I’m seeing children play in the middle of the street. I’m seeing fathers playing football.”

The striking turnaround turned Ballinger, a former journalist and violent-crime victim, into one of the most outspoken supporters of the Memphis Safe Task Force as the operation marks one year on the ground.

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