Trump threatens to 'send in the feds' to address Chicago 'carnage'

[DonViejo]

By John Wagner and Mark Berman January 25 at 12:44 AM

President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to re-up the idea of sending federal law enforcement to Chicago if the city’s homicide rate doesn’t come down.

“If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on,” Trump wrote, “I will send in the Feds!”

He said in his tweet that there had been 228 shootings and 42 homicides in Chicago since the start of the year — figures higher than the comparable period during 2016, which was particularly bloody year for the city.

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Trump has raised the prospect of Washington intervention in Chicago before. His latest musings on the subject came just a day after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) criticized the Republican president for focusing so much on the size of the crowd at his inaugural ceremony and failing in his speech to appeal to “our better angels as a country.”

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[1965Comet]

1. What I don't understand

is why Trump feels the need to phrase this as a threat. Is he saying Chicago should be afraid of his "feds"? Are they now playing the role of the Gestapo?

[Stellar]

3. or extra Fed officials to come in and kill unarmed civilians....

..just what Chicago needs more LaQuan McDonalds, "16 shots and a cover-up."
Yep, just what Chicago needs. Unless of course he want to feed federal aid into the inner city for GED, job training skills etc.


Or maybe Trump really want this additional help at the link. You never can tell with that quack.

http://chicagoreporter.com/how-chicago-tried-to-cover-up-a-police-execution/

[1965Comet]

6. Maybe the carnage he mentioned

was the police killings, and not the civilian-on-civilian crimes?

Probably not, but Trump is terrible at being concise enough for Twitter to be a good communication medium...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

2. As is if the murders will stop murdering if the feds are in town

I'm just trying to figure out how that will make any difference.

[HAB911]

4. What FEDS?

Marshals, FBI, NCIS or National Guard?

[Lee-Lee]

5. Maybe he will make the BATFE actually care about illegal firearm sales

That would be a positive step. The laws are there, virtually every very gun used in a crime had multiple people violating the law along the way to that gun making it to the crime scene, but the BATFE rarely if ever bothers to investigate the path it took and then if the do the US Attorney office often declines to prosecute because it's not a "sexy" case.

But he won't. Because that would be sane policy that makes sense.