# 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:** 3\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/121 "2017-07-01T04:34:00Z")
20 ATF agents aren’t going to do much in Chicago, Trump would need to bring 80 more and 4 or 5 SWAT teams considering the viciousness and carelessness of criminals in Chicago. And even I doubt it’ll do much of anything really. Chicago’s not just the only city with a drug problem. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/122 "2017-07-01T16:23:52Z")
> [@ultimate11](#): > > 20 ATF agents aren’t going to do much in Chicago, Trump would need to bring 80 more and 4 or 5 SWAT teams considering the viciousness and carelessness of criminals in Chicago. > > And even I doubt it’ll do much of anything really. Chicago’s not just the only city with a drug problem. And yet the homicide rate is higher in Milwaukee. Feel free to send those 20! agents north 50 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114/123 "2017-07-01T18:02:29Z")
True. St. Louis has the 14th highest homicide rate _in the world_ for a large city (between Cape Town, South Africa and Feira de Santana, Brazil) but that doesn’t play into the GOP mythology as well as Chicago does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-send-in-the-feds-to-chicago/778114.md?page=6)