Yesterday President Donald Trump spoke in Chicago before a conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. WGN reports:
CHICAGO (WLS) — For the first time since taking office President Trump visited Chicago on Monday morning.
Trump spoke at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference at McCormick Place, addressing a wide range of topics, including efforts to reduce crime and paying respect to Chicago police officers wounded in the line of duty.
ABC7 Political Reporter Craig Wall spoke exclusively with the president, and asked him why Chicago had been such a frequent target.
“Well, all you have to do is take a look at your numbers, where you have 500 and 600 murders over the year,” Trump said. “You have all the problems that you’ve had. It can be straightened out with proper management.”
The president blamed the murders and shootings on Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and Chicago’s status as a sanctuary city.
Whatever Police Superintendent Johnson’s problems Chicago’s homicide rate cannot be laid at his door and Mayor Lightfoot has only been mayor for a few months. The homicide rate has actually declined a bit since she took office. Its peak was under her predecessor, Rahm Emanuel.
And any tolerance of illegal immigration is only tangentially related to Chicago’s high homicide rate. Most of Chicago’s homicides are young black men killing one another or people caught in the crossfire, take place in a half dozen of the city’s neighborhoods, and are gang-related.
The reasons for the gangs are complex. It doesn’t help that they have been hand in glove with corrupt city, county, and state governments. One of the reasons for the rise of black gangs is a collapse of the family structure among urban blacks. The young men need social support and protection from somewhere so they turn to gangs.
Judging from the FBI’s statistics the high homicide rate among young urban black men cannot be explained purely by appealing to race. The rural black homicide rate is just about the same as the rural white homicide rate.
Illegal immigration, particularly from Mexico and Central America, is, indeed, tangentially related to the lack of economic opportunities for young black men since entry level jobs which they might have taken are now being done by immigrants from Mexico and Central America, many of them illegal.
The only reason Trump went to Chicago was because Johnson didnt attend that meeting and then the no confidence vote. Just there to cause trouble and attack his political enemies, not offer anything constructive.
Steve
I criticize claims that I think are incorrect, regardless of who makes them, in as non-agonistic a fashion as I can manage, not relying on a hypothetical assessment of motives.
“The rural black homicide rate is just about the same as the rural white homicide rate.â€
In FL just go inland from the glitzy coastal areas and you find yourself in farmland, swampland (with swamp people; mostly white), Hispanics, blacks and Haitians. You will quickly see for yourself that it’s not skin color, it’s social. The farmers aren’t killing each other, recklessly driving or committing burglaries. The others are. It’s values. Social pathologies.
PS
In western NC, a chapter of the VFB (very few blacks) you still have strange agents. Mountain people. Overwhelmingly white.