Pritzker should BEG for his help to fight crime – Latest News
Illinois’ Democratic leaders insist they don’t need President Donald Trump’s help to fight crime, however the info keep proving the alternative.
Labor Day weekend noticed a mind-numbing 54 people shot in Chicago, seven fatally — more than twice final yr’s toll.
And although murders in 2025 are down a bit from the 2024 degree, they’re nonetheless 4 occasions increased per capita than in New York City.
No surprise Trump calls Chicago a “hellhole” that might benefit from a federal intervention, together with a National Guard deployment.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson fiercely oppose that. Johnson even ordered police not to cooperate with federal brokers, simply because the Department of Homeland Security will get set to step up immigration enforcement in his metropolis.
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Clearly, these Democratic leaders don’t need to repair the issue; higher see Chicagoans die than cooperate with Orange Man.
Is there any higher proof that crime is a selection? After all:
* When Trump despatched National Guard items to DC, crime plunged virtually in a single day. The metropolis truly went 12 days with out a single homicide. Even Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser admits “the surge of officers” enhanced DC’s cops’ efforts and has taken steps to make it a more everlasting association.
* New York City’s expertise within the Nineties and since completely proves that proactive policing can sink crime charges throughout the board — at the same time as more current state and metropolis anti-policing “reforms” despatched crime edging back up after 2019, solely to be reversed again as NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch restores (for now, anyway) the emphasis on quality-of-life policing.
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That is: It’s not merely that Pritzker and leaders of different crime-plagued jurisdictions should be begging for additional, free-of-charge law-enforcement help.
It’s that they’re actively selecting pro-crime insurance policies: For instance, Johnson final week insisted “incarceration” is “racist” and “immoral” and “not the way to drive violence down.”
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is refusing to finances funds to implement tougher-on-crime measures the state’s voters final yr handed overwhelmingly (regardless of his opposition) final yr.
National Guard or not, tolerating high crime is a political determination — and most Democratic pols keep making the flawed selection.
