Clean up your act, or I will - a fine Presidential letter

Whatever problems they have now, Donny can make that seem insignificant.

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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."
 
userque said:
Some (slow) people still don't realize this clown is a con-artist/bullshitter--and unskilled at that.

It's just election time bs.

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."
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It’s an easy solution: don’t count the homicides. Then there won’t be any.
 
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.
 
gwb-trading said:
Any official letter from President Trump to the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago is going to be entertaining...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...rumps-letter-governor-illinois-mayor-chicago/

Governor J.B. Pritzker
Governor of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois 60601

Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
Mayor of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois 60602

Dear Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot:

I write to you today to call your attention to and urge action on the devastating violence in Chicago. While I have been heartened to see crime reductions nationally the last few years, I have been horrified by the continued violence in this great American city.

I recently read an article from the Chicago Sun-Times on June 8, 2020, “18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago,” which discussed the severe crime and lack of law and order in our Nation’s third largest city. The article details how “85 people were shot and 24 killed the previous weekend, the most in modern history in Chicago.” Your lack of leadership on this important issue continues to fail the people you have sworn to protect. I am concerned it is another example of your lack of commitment to the vulnerable citizens who are victims of this violence and a lack of respect for the men and women in law enforcement. The article recounts the following horrors:
  • A hardworking father killed.
  • A West Side high school student murdered.
  • A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down.
  • 18 people killed Sunday, May 31, the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades.
  • The weekend of May 29, 25 people were killed and another 85 wounded by gunfire.
  • The most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of protests and looting.
Violence and death, which are disproportionately harming young African Americans, are tragic and unacceptable, particularly on such a shocking scale. According to the Chicago Sun Times, “shootings across the City increased by 71 percent last month,” and just this past weekend 102 people were shot in the city’s most violent weekend of the year. A 3-year old toddler was killed. More Americans have been killed in Chicago than in combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq combined since September 11, 2001, a deadly trend that has continued under your tenure.

The American people (hardworking taxpayers) send you millions of dollars in Federal funding each year to support public safety in Chicago. In 2018 and 2019, the City of Chicago benefited from $136 million in funding from the Urban Area Security Initiative Grant Program, and another $68 million was recently announced for Chicago from this important program. The Department of Justice awarded and is in the process of awarding nearly $20 million to support law enforcement and law-enforcement related entities in the City of Chicago and Cook County across 2019 and 2020, including resources for combating opioid abuse and recidivism reduction. The Department of Labor has also awarded funding to programs targeting prisoner re-entry and recidivism reduction in the Chicago area. My Administration allocated $898.6 million to the City of Chicago and Cook County from the Coronavirus Relief Fund, which helps support your first responders on the front lines. In the absence of any modicum of leadership, however, these substantial sums of taxpayer money are not being turned into results, and the safety of your most vulnerable communities continues to deteriorate. These funds are in addition to those collected through your combined insatiable appetite to tax the people of Illinois and Chicago.

I will continue to lead the way to support historically disadvantaged communities and would welcome your help in these endeavors. In December 2018, I signed into law the First Step Act, marking the first major reforms to our criminal justice system in over a decade. This brings historic reforms to make our justice system fairer and to help inmates successfully transition back into society by providing prisoners with a second chance through rehabilitative programs and fair sentencing. Additionally, when I signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, we created Opportunity Zones. Nationwide, nearly 9,000 communities have designated Opportunity Zones, including over 130 in Chicago, which are incentivizing investments in areas that have been forgotten for far too long. My Administration has also provided robust, unprecedented support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Recently, on June 16, I signed an Executive Order advancing important reforms to elevate a noble profession and strengthen the essential bond of trust between police officers and the communities in which they serve. My Administration continues to work closely with Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and others across the political spectrum to advance further policy improvements and meaningful reforms.

Unlike previous Administrations of both parties, I am willing to tackle unsolved challenges. If you are willing to put partisanship aside, we can revitalize distressed neighborhoods in Chicago, together. But to succeed, you must establish law and order. The combination of crime, high State and local taxes, and onerous State and local government regulations have caused thousands of Illinoisans to flee to other States. Between 2010 and 2019, Illinois lost more of its population than any other state in the Nation. If you are interested, I am willing to ask members of my Cabinet to meet with you and help devise a plan to make Chicago safe, since a successful formula has escaped both you and your predecessors. My Administration would also welcome the opportunity to engage with you and your colleagues as you develop bipartisan policy recommendations to improve policing and make our great cities safer for all.

Unfortunately, you continue to put your own political interests ahead of the lives, safety, and fortunes of your own citizens. The people of Chicago deserve better.

Sincerely,

Donald J. Trump
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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.
 
ph1l said:
For those 20 listed cities, the mayors of the top 19 of them all belong to one political party.
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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.
 
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Bugenhagen said:
Go back to your imaginary world where all your ideas are great.
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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
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Many attribute New York's crime reduction to specific "get-tough" policies carried out by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration.
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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.
 
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