Posted on 01/25/2017 12:41:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’ve long since lost track of how many stories we’ve covered here about the skyrocketing murder rate and gang violence problems in the Windy City. (Talk about American carnage.) It seems that the new President hasn’t forgotten about it either and he took to Twitter this week to deliver something of an ultimatum to Mayor Rahm Emanuel… get your crime problem under control or I’m going to fix it for you. This is obviously a move designed to pick a fight with a high profile Democrat while reinforcing his plans to bolster law enforcement, so it’s going to lead to a number of liberals having their knickers in knots. But I think we’ve learned in only five days that President Trump plans to carry through on his campaign promises (or at least go to the mat trying) no matter who it angers. What’s yet to be determined, however, is precisely what this threat of “sending in the feds” would look like. (WaPo)
President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to re-up the idea of sending federal law enforcement to Chicago if the city’s homicide rate doesn’t come down.
“If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on,” Trump wrote, “I will send in the Feds!”
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Trump has raised the prospect of Washington intervention in Chicago before. His latest musings on the subject came just two days after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) criticized the Republican president for focusing so much on the size of the crowd at his inaugural ceremony and failing in his speech to appeal to “our better angels as a country.”
I’m not going to deny that there’s probably some sparring going on here at the personal level. On Monday, Rahm was out there not only criticizing the inauguration speech, but harping on Trump about the crowd size questions. Clearly the Chicago mayor wanted this fight for whatever reason and now he’s got it.
But to what purpose? On the surface, both the mayor and the Chicago PD are acting as if they’re eager to accept some additional federal help, but it sounds like they want to pick what form that assistance takes. Both the Chief of Police and the mayor’s office are saying that they would welcome some support, but it needs to be in areas of “combating gun violence” and providing more money for police. Chicago definitely has a gun problem, but it’s the number of illegal guns (almost never bought through legal channels) in the hands of violent criminals and gang members. Throwing more money at the problem isn’t going to solve anything because it’s the city government which has failed the citizens utterly in this regard.
Emanuel’s comments don’t make it sound like they’re taking the actual problem as seriously as they should and it looks like Trump plans to shine a very bright light on that fact. The Chicago Tribune reported that the city was already up to 44 murders in the first 24 days of the year. They’ve also had more than 220 shootings. That’s actually up from last year, when the city broke violent crime records which hadn’t been seen since the 90s. It’s almost entirely because of the gangs, and Emanuel still isn’t mentioning that.
But the President has been talking about just this subject. Keep in mind that on the very day he was sworn in, this message went up at the White House web site.
The Trump Administration is committed to reducing violent crime. In 2015, homicides increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent. There were thousands of shootings in Chicago last year alone.
Our country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing.
So what can Trump do? If they are invited he could clearly send in a task force from the FBI, but how many agents do we have to spare at the moment? If they do send them in they’re going to be there for a long time because this gang problem took decades to fester and grow to the current levels and it’s not going away overnight. Perhaps we’ll have more answers after John Kelly is settled into his office.
IT DOESN’T MATTER.
Trump won by saying it.
Next?
No, let the denizens of Chicongo enjoy what they have voted for.
Last time I checked this was America, or The United States of America...
If a State or City cannot do it’s job, and they are in the dire straights that this town is in, ‘Mob Controlled City’ then I think our fellow brothers and sisters need a hand to help them out...
Who knows, maybe when the ‘plantation idiots’ stop killing people walking down the street in America on any given day, we might find out that they will thank us...ya think???
The Feds swooped into Seattle.
Chicago has an international air hub. Must protect safety of international visitors.
Chicago should look to New York City to learn how to get the Murder Rate down.
I think it’s DJT’s way of saying to the Governor, hey what’s up, you’re next?
I wonder, could the Donald secretly be a Freeper???
No Chicago is a major drug hub. By the way Obama release 4 of the high officials in this drug cartel before he left office. The cartel controls Chicago. End of story.
Chicago is way down in the list.
Here is 24/7 Wall Street’s Top 25 list of the cities with the highest murder rates:
St. Louis, MO
Baltimore, MD
Detroit, MI
New Orleans, LA
Birmingham, AL
Jackson, MS
Baton Rouge, LA
Hartford, CT
Salinas, CA
Milwaukee, WI
Washington, DC
Kansas City, MO
Cincinnati, OH
West Palm Beach, FL
Memphis, TN
San Bernadino, CA
Oakland, CA
Atlanta, GA
Richmond, VA
Kansas City, KS
Pittsburgh, PA
Dayton, OH
Philadelphia, PA
Chicago, IL
North Charleston, SC
IIRC, Rochester NY had a program where extra help was sent in. I'll check what they did.
Paging Elliot Ness.
There probably is more justification to “send the feds in” to get Rahm Emanuel. I’m sure even a cursory investigation would find that this guy is dirty.
They sent the 82d Airborne into Detroit in 1968 to stop this there.
Here’s a two-step fed solution:
Gather all guns seized by DEA.
Go to Chicago and hand them out to whoever does NOT have a record.
The feds were involved in all those sweetheart lawsuits that handcuffed the police. Undo those settlements, and let the Chicago leftists impose their own handcuffs and take responsibility for them.
The $hitcogo cops can just throw coffee on the thugs.
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