Armchair swagger and bravado is not very helpful. I live in Chicago, have done so for 20 years.
It’s not just blacks. Hispanic gangs are every bit as much of the problem.
The root problem is family breakdown. Saturating the city with National Guardsmen is no solution.
The increase in crime and shootings is DIRECTLY related to changes in policing tactics, done to save money.
Rahm Dead Fish Emmanuel owns this mess fair and square. He and his sock puppet chief of police (a stupider man never was born) steadfastly refuse to change tactics and hire the policemen neeeded.
The gang problem requires gumshoe police work, not Rambo-types on every street corner.
Adding more police will be ineffective.
More police may catch more criminals, but then what do you do with them when the jails are full and the court calendars are clogged? You need a change of tactics wherein you focus on career criminals and ensure they are put away until they are old and gray. Then you take away the incentives of leading a criminal life.
It depends on the "Problem" you are trying to solve. Rahm has no desire to actually fix anything.
He only needs a crisis to take advantage of to gain more power and control over the rest of the public gullible enough to "do something"
his goal is to allow the predators to destroy the remaining culture so he can rebuild the new society based in his beliefs instead of the founding principals that have worked for over 200 years.