Posted on 12/06/2013 12:05:36 PM PST by Q-ManRN
The new head of Chicago's FBI office said Monday he'll look for ways his agents can do more to help stem homicide rates and other violent crimes in the nation's third-largest city, though he added it's not yet clear what more the FBI can do that it's not already doing.
Robert Holley's comments to The Associated Press in one of his first interviews since assuming his new post a month ago come amid calls by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Illinois' two U.S. senators and others for federal law enforcement to do more to combat violence in Chicago, which has hundreds of homicides each year.
Already, about 25 percent of Chicago agents work violent-crime cases, Holley noted. But given congressional spending constraints, shifting more resources to the gang, gun and drug crimes that underpin much of the violence could jeopardize other investigative priorities in Chicago, including corruption and counterterrorism, he said.
Holley declined to say exactly how many agents in Chicago were assigned to counterterrorism, but he said a greater number is devoted to violent crime.
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Been a while since you were in Chicago?
Yes. Maybe 9-10 years.
You still run the risk of getting shot in the street but it is a great location near downtown.
Sad.
5.56mm
I know a way to do it. But it would require forced population transfers and we don’t do that in America. Not yet.
“...should be forced to swim to Gitmo.”
There, fixed it! :-)
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