Posted on 09/09/2020 3:15:52 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
On Wednesday, Attorney General Bill Barr revealed that the murder rate in Chicago had plummeted "roughly in half" since the start of Operation Legend, a program that deploys federal agents to violent cities to quell violence.
During a press conference in Chicago, Barr said that Operation Legend has resulted in 500 arrests as well as 124 individual federal crime charges.
“Throughout the country, more than 2500 people have been arrested and more than 600 are facing federal charges as part of the operation, an ongoing government effort to combat surging crime in parts of the country,” Fox News reports.
Daily Wire reported:
Operation Legend launched in Chicago in early July, after the city experienced a shocking spike in shootings and homicides following the release of coronavirus-related lockdowns. Gang violence on the city’s south and west sides also spiked, leaving a number of minors — including several children five years of age and younger — dead or severely injured.
The program, which now operates in more than a dozen cities, pairs agents and resources from the FBI, US Marshals, ATF, and DEA with major city police department investigators to help handle organized crime and, specifically, widespread gun violence and illegal weapons and narcotics trafficking.
In Chicago alone, 400 federal agents are assigned to the Operation Legend task force, though around 200 of those agents were already working in the city prior to the program’s launch. The city also received around $9 million in federal funds to boost community-oriented policing projects and around $3.5 million to support anti-crime operations already in existence, per local media.
“The results of those actions speak for themselves: over the first five weeks of Operation Legend in Chicago, murders dropped by 50% over the previous five weeks. August ultimately saw a 45% decrease in murders compared to July, and a 35% decrease compared to June,” Barr said.
The Justice Department released a graph showing the reduction in homicides in Chicago.
The Daily Wire continues:
Gun violence in Chicago is still a major problem. Despite Operation Legend’s achievements, the city’s August murder rate was the highest since 2016 and is only lower in comparison to June’s and July’s murder rates, which set city records. So far this summer, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Chicago has seen 342 people killed in gun violence and 1,607 wounded, that’s up significantly from 2019 when 172 people were killed over the summer and 890 wounded.
Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot initially declined President Donald Trump’s offer of federal assistance in handling the city’s crime spike but later agreed to help on the condition that it did not look like federal intervention in Portland, Oregon, where the Department of Justice sent an elite, militarized unit from Customs and Border Protection to guard federal property against rioters.
Cool!
Anything on the coup leaders and key personnel?
I wonder if the Chicago/Cook County DA, Kim Foxx, will fight the Feds to have these folks release because they are “oppressed victims because of their race”?
That chart will never be seen on cnn, msnbc, cbs, abc, nbc or any major newspaper.
“...I wonder if the Chicago/Cook County DA, Kim Foxx, will fight the Feds to have these folks release because they are “oppressed victims because of their race”?...”
She’s a Soros/obama shadow govt hack...do bears crap in the woods?
Meanwhile, the CLINTON murder rate continues to add up and up and up...
Another posse commitatus work around brought to you by the party of the patriot act.
Barr still kickin’ up dust on his extended Victory Lap, I see.
One has to wonder how many shootings per arrest there are. If some of these people were shooting someone every weekend, you take them off the street and it has a compounding effect.
Live in Chicago ? PRINT THIS UP AND PASS IT AROUND IN TOUR PREXINCT
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If the killing stops nobody gets paid.MalcolmX and his teaching are all coming true the black man needs to fear the wolf in the mirror.
I don’t care. I want indictments. I want Barr and Durham to do their jobs.
I don’t care. I want indictments. I want Barr and Durham to do their jobs.
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Going after the guppies to distract from not doing anything about the real sharks.
Amazing what can happen when the grown-ups are in control.
i noticed the last weekend numbers were good, strange for a 3 day weekend
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