Some (slow) people still don't realize this clown is a con-artist/bullshitter--and unskilled at that. It's just election time bs...something for his cult followers to fap to. Trump Says He Has Chicago’s Crime Problem Solved July 28, 2017 at 4:30 pm https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/07/28/trump-crime-problem-solved/ "(CBS) – President Donald Trump on Friday said he could fix Chicago’s violence problem with one phone call. In fact, the president told Mayor Rahm Emanuel about a Chicago police officer who guarantees he can fix the problem. Trump, speaking before police in New York, said he met the Chicago cop during a campaign appearance last year. “I said what the hell is going on,” Trump recalled. He says he asked the officer, “How long would it take you to straighten out the problem?” The Chicago police officer told Trump if he had the authority, only “a couple of days,” the president said. The Chicago officer told Trump the police know who all of the criminals are. Friday’s reference by Trump wasn’t the first time the president has mentioned this encounter. He’s never publicly disclosed the officer’s name, but claims he told Emanuel about the officer. Mayor Emanuel pushed back at the president Friday. Trump has frequently criticized Chicago for its violence, at one point saying he would send “the feds” in to sort things out. “We can only hope the president is as interested in attacking crime as he is in attacking his attorney general, transgender members of the military and the three largest cities in the country,” Emanuel said in a prepared statement."
The President should have immediately sent in the National Guard. Why give these horribly run cities an option. The rioting could be stopped and prevented.
Methinks he has just adopted a don't count them policy. Cunning of him to wait for the initial anger wave to end to be a leader. Always safest from the rear.
He is more conciliatory than I would have. I would have directed the Attorney General to check if the mayor and governor of Chicago has abused their powers and if they can be prosecuted and charged for it under US laws. If so, I would given the green light to charge them and make them an example for others. The only way to deter bad behavior is to make an example, of people engaged in bad behavior. Also, would have directed the FBI and DOJ to prosecute all the thugs, destroying monuments, setting fires, destroying and looting businesses to the fullest extent of the law. Law and order must be restored, we cannot tolerate lawlessness indefinitely. A line in the sand has to be set.
And republicans could run those cities by showing how to fix things but they never managed to do that. There are quite a few smaller places, republican run, that are per capita worse. Remember when Trump was going to solve everything in Chicago with a phone call? Running the same large cities republicans also struggle or do worse. Go back to your imaginary world where all your ideas are great.
I'm not surprised you missed the point in your ad hominem reply, but here is one example of a large city that reduced crime when a Republican was in charge: https://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/w9061.html What Reduced Crime in New York City ... Many attribute New York's crime reduction to specific "get-tough" policies carried out by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration. ... The contribution of such deterrence measures (the "stick") offers more explanation for the decline in New York City crime than the improvement in the economy, the authors conclude. Between 1990 and 1999, homicide dropped 73 percent, burglary 66 percent, assault 40 percent, robbery 67 percent, and vehicle hoists 73 percent. The authors' model manages to explain between 33 and 86 percent of those declines. And for your information, I'm no fan of Trump. But he did say someone else with enough authority could fix Chicago's crime problem. https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/07/28/trump-crime-problem-solved/ “I said what the hell is going on,” Trump recalled. He says he asked the officer, “How long would it take you to straighten out the problem?” The Chicago police officer told Trump if he had the authority, only “a couple of days,” the president said. The Chicago officer told Trump the police know who all of the criminals are.