# Trump Threatens to Send in the Feds to Chicago **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 25, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114 "2017-01-25T03:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![arfurvirus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@arfurvirus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arfurvirus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/1 "2017-01-25T03:47:52Z")
If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible “carnage” going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017 [http://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-threatens-send-feds-chicago-carnage/story?id=45025761](http://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-threatens-send-feds-chicago-carnage/story?id=45025761) [http://heyjackass.com/](http://heyjackass.com/) I don’t know if America could fix decades of dems screwing up that city. Best to just wall off the bad parts of town and let them have at it. Reagan did the same with Miami… Flood the city with Feds, go in hard, take no prisoners, and toss out the corruption. Make convictions stick. Juan Williams on Fox 5 tonight was talking about this. Basically blew this off because it didn’t represent most of Chicago, just a few areas that were outliers. Police are “afraid” to go into these areas. Afraid of guns and gang bangers? No, afraid of winding up losing their pension after being on the wrong side of national news. I say GOOD. RICO charges for all. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/2 "2017-01-25T03:54:47Z")
Reagan walled off parts of Miami and left the inhabitants there to kill each other? Jesus, how did I miss that happening? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/3 "2017-01-25T03:58:38Z")
We’re less than a week in, and the GOP has to be considering how long they can keep this albatross. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/4 "2017-01-25T04:06:48Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Reagan walled off parts of Miami and left the inhabitants there to kill each other? > > Jesus, how did I miss that happening? I don’t know about you, but I missed a lot of things that happened in the 80s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/5 "2017-01-25T04:11:12Z")
It seems we have our answer to the question, “will Trump keep send out stupid tweets after he’s sworn in?” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/6 "2017-01-25T04:21:51Z")
Hey, Elliot Ness did a fine job! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/7 "2017-01-25T04:27:06Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > It seems we have our answer to the question, “will Trump keep send out stupid tweets after he’s sworn in?” He’s acting Presidential like he promised. _His_ version of Presidential. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/8 "2017-01-25T04:32:51Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Reagan walled off parts of Miami and left the inhabitants there to kill each other? > > Jesus, how did I miss that happening? Didn’t you see the documentary about Snake Plissken? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/9 "2017-01-25T04:33:17Z")
> [@arfurvirus](#): > > I don’t know if America could fix decades of dems screwing up that city. Best to just wall off the bad parts of town and let them have at it. > > Reagan did the same with Miami… > Flood the city with Feds, go in hard, take no prisoners, and toss out the corruption. Make convictions stick. Yeah, because that worked out _so well_ for Detroit back in the 1960’s when Governor Romney ordered the National Guard into the city. That’s when the city started to bleed inhabitants of every color and go into a downward spiral for decades. Because no one wants to live in a city with gun battles between the Feds and gangs. > [@](#): > > I say GOOD. RICO charges for all. Arrest the politicians - seriously, the corruption in this area is breathtaking by any standard. It has nothing to do with Democrats, the local Republicans are just as rotten. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/10 "2017-01-25T04:34:24Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Reagan walled off parts of Miami and left the inhabitants there to kill each other? > > Jesus, how did I miss that happening? It was a Tough Love decision, and it nearly broke Ronnie’s heart to sanction the mountains of corpses to regain the City’s Soul, but in the end like all the hard choices it was worth it. A kinder, nobler, redeemed Miami, the honest Miami of today, finally won through. The criminals were gone. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/11 "2017-01-25T04:34:54Z")
But he won’t send troops to the areas that were hit by tornadoes, even though the governor pleaded with him? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/12 "2017-01-25T04:43:48Z")
He’s trying to shut down the Dope? :eek: (Seriously, what’s the problem with Chicago?) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/13 "2017-01-25T04:45:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > But he won’t send troops to the areas that were hit by tornadoes, even though the governor pleaded with him? Why should he? He has no business interests there. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/14 "2017-01-25T05:20:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > But he won’t send troops to the areas that were hit by tornadoes, even though the governor pleaded with him? You have a cite for that? Not a cite for the governor asking to send “troops” (no governor would request that in such circumstances, I hope), but a cite that Trump won’t send requested aid. Here, let me help you out. From Mississippi Governor Bryan’ts Facebook page (he’s the guy in the article “pleading for help”): _Just took a call from the president of the United States, who expressed his support for Mississippi and his condolences for the lives lost during the Jan. 21 tornado. President Trump intends to expedite the recovery process and will sign the major disaster declaration as soon as possible. He wanted all Mississippians to know that he and his administration stand with us during these challenging times._ ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/15 "2017-01-25T05:43:39Z")
> [@arfurvirus](#): > > Police are “afraid” to go into these areas. Afraid of guns and gang bangers? No, afraid of winding up losing their pension after being on the wrong side of national news. These people shouldn’t be cops. If you’re unwilling to do your job because you’re worried about media backlash; if your most immediate concern when it comes to _shooting someone_ is “That’d look bad on my CV”; if you can’t handle the responsibility that comes with being one of the few Americans who is pretty much always able to get away with murder… Then you shouldn’t be a cop. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/16 "2017-01-25T06:04:51Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > We’re less than a week in, and the GOP has to be considering how long they can keep this albatross. But the base is eating this up! Go take a look at Free Republic. They are ecstatic over there. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/17 "2017-01-25T06:37:59Z")
Seriously, what is the problem with Chicago that he thinks he needs to send in the Army like its Falluja circa 2004? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/18 "2017-01-25T06:39:30Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Seriously, what is the problem with Chicago that he thinks he needs to send in the Army like its Falluja circa 2004? He’s practicing. ---
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/19 "2017-01-25T06:42:01Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Why should he? He has no business interests there. Doesn’t he have a hotel in Chicago with his name on it? :rolleyes: I’ve slept with the youths of Chicago back in my first course of job training (if you’ve seen my [topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=784999) I made months ago) back in Joliet, and it’s a mess. This was March to September 2015, but there I got robbed a few times to the point where I needed to bring a safe (which now holds old documents), picked once (and stole nothing), and it was gang mentality there, one side against another. None of them would snitch, none of them were supportive, and most of them were ignorant. Yes, some of them were in their teens, but I wouldn’t use that excuse because even the old guys did wrong too. I can tell you that things are bad when you’re standing next to a green line train, you get bumped _hard_ by someone who’s going on a CTA Green Line train towards Harlem/Lake, and instead of joining in the nearest car, he walks to the furthest car. Either he was trying to pickpocket me (picked where? Normally my stuff is in my coat, and I don’t think he pocketed me from my pants (where’s there’s nothing there), or setting up a team pick…although I lost nothing that day, no cash lost, my iPhone still with me, everything is fine. Guy must have been pissed off at something, but at least he could have picked somewhere else to walk. Oh, and I would like to emphasis “hard”, it was a sharp shove that hurt for a while. I hope he sends feds to Chicago. It’s time to get tough on gangs and time to stop the mentality of violence in the ghettos of Chicago. The mentalities are seeping into our suburbs, seeping into safer areas of downtown, and we can’t have that. At the same time of improving enforcement, let’s also improve the internal problems as well, education, crime, and costs. A slum is a slum unless you fix the underlying causes of the slum. Also fix the gang culture too. Anyways, that’s my rant while burning the midnight oil- from near Chicago, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/20 "2017-01-25T06:46:33Z")
> [@ultimate11](#): > > Doesn’t he have a hotel in Chicago with his name on it? :rolleyes: I was answering a post about the tornadoes in Georgia. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114.md?page=2)