Mr. President, don’t send the Guard to NYC — yet – Latest News
We don’t anticipate President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard in New York City for a host of causes — not least as a result of we’re taking his solutions critically, however not actually.
That is, when Trump final week mentioned the very actual success of his intervention in Washington, DC, policing, he mused that Chicago could possibly be subsequent, “and then we’ll help with New York.”
Just in case, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Monday reportedly advised Attorney General Pam Bondi it’s not needed, since crime is down and Gotham stays far safer than different massive US cities.
Shootings are at an all-time low, whereas burglaries, robberies and felony assaults are all trending down, too.
The Big Apple’s principal drawback is with the no-bail law and the state authorities’s different blows to the justice system, an subject Trump flagged Monday.
The Guard can’t help a lot with that — and didn’t when Gov. Kathy Hochul despatched it in to help out, as she’s apparently identified to the prez.
Cities resembling Chicago, which held its spot as the homicide capital of America for the thirteenth 12 months working in 2024, would possibly benefit — besides Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker care an excessive amount of about ideology to work with the Trump administration to save their residents’ lives.
We suspect pushing them to make that apparent was a massive purpose Trump floated the thought.
And if Zohran Mamdani wins in November and begins unwinding Mayor Eric Adams’ and Tisch’s hard-won progress, then Trump will no doubt begin baiting him.
The president’s too good to mess with success — however don’t anticipate him to resist any alternative to expose what his enemies actually stand for.
