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There is no such thing as a cause for People to dwell in concern as President Donald Trump floats mobilizing Nationwide Guard troops to different cities to handle crime like he has in Washington, the White Home insists.
Whereas Illinois leaders, together with Gov. JB Pritzker, have made it clear they aren’t taken with receiving Nationwide Guard troops in Chicago, the White Home mentioned it could welcome requests from Republican and Democratic leaders for added legislation enforcement assist to cut back crime in American cities.
“That is our message to People in Democrat-run cities nationwide: decline is a alternative,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters Thursday. “You do not have to dwell in fixed concern of being robbed, raped or murdered. Your leaders are mendacity to you — and so they have been failing you for many years.”
WHITE HOUSE ACCUSES PRITZKER, ILLINOIS DEMS OF WHINING WHILE CHICAGO CRIME RAGES
Armed Nationwide Guard members patrol close to the U.S. Capitol as safety tightens following President Donald Trump’s deployment order. (Getty Photographs/Tasos Katopodis)
“Governor Pritzker ought to spend much less time demonizing the police, extra time making an attempt to recruit extra police, and extra time making an attempt to name the president of the USA to get crime in his metropolis underneath management,” Leavitt mentioned. “The president desires to permit legislation enforcement, whether or not it is state, native, federal, to do their jobs, to arrest criminals, to place them behind bars, and to take away public security threats from American communities, he’ll proceed to try this.”
Pritzker, a Democrat who hasn’t dominated out operating for president in 2028, has pushed again in opposition to the potential of Nationwide Guard troops arriving in Chicago to handle crime, and mentioned Monday that the transfer could be “unconstitutional” and “un-American.”
“Donald Trump desires to make use of the army to occupy a U.S. metropolis, punish its dissidents and rating political factors,” Pritzker mentioned. “If this have been taking place in some other nation, we might don’t have any hassle calling it what it’s — a harmful energy seize.”
GOV. PRITZKER SAYS TRUMP TRYING TO ‘MANUFACTURE A CRISIS’ AS ADMIN PLANS NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT TO CHICAGO
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker delivers remarks in Chicago alongside Mayor Brandon Johnson and different officers after studies the White Home was making ready to deploy Nationwide Guard troops to town. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP through Getty Photographs)
In the meantime, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson mentioned in a Friday assertion that crime is down in Chicago, and mentioned town prior to now yr has lowered homicides by greater than 30%, robberies by 35% and shootings by virtually 40%.
However the White Home has continued to level to native studies that Chicago has had probably the most murders of any U.S. metropolis for the previous 13 years, as of the latest 2024 knowledge.
“For 13 consecutive years, Chicago has had probably the most murders of any U.S. metropolis,” Leavitt mentioned Thursday. “That is JB Pritzker’s legacy, by the best way.”
CHICAGO MAYOR CALLS TRUMP’S NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT PLAN ‘UNCOORDINATED, UNCALLED-FOR AND UNSOUND’
Nationwide Guard troops stood at Union Station, days after being deployed within the metropolis, simply down the highway from the U.S. Capitol. (Fox Information Digital/Emma Woodhead)
“He ought to put politics apart,” Leavitt mentioned. “He ought to choose up the telephone and name this president, who could be more than pleased to do proper by law-abiding American residents within the metropolis of Chicago. And we hope that he’ll.”
Chicago doesn’t have probably the most murders per capita, and is not listed within the high 5 cities for homicide per capita in compilations of 2024 FBI knowledge.
Trump disclosed plans Aug. 11 to mobilize troops from the D.C. Nationwide Guard and to federalize the Metropolitan Police Division to handle crime within the nation’s capital. Since then, Trump has indicated that he would possibly dispatch Nationwide Guard troops to different cities within the U.S., together with Chicago.
“We go in, we’ll remedy Chicago inside one week, possibly much less,” Trump instructed reporters Monday morning. “However inside one week we’ll don’t have any crime in Chicago, like no crime in D.C.”
