President Donald Trump wants to reduce crime in some of our most dangerous cities. Democrats are furious and come – again hard down on the wrong side of a matter that affects millions of Americans.
Why would the leaders of cities with high crime such as Washington and Chicago object to the president who help make their streets safer? They are panicking that Trump will succeed and exposes them as the awkward, corrupt leaders they really are.
For decades, Democrats have been struggling to overcome Gop accusations that they were ‘soft in crime’. In 1994, President Bill Clinton, in an attempt to combat indictment, signed the most radical anti-crime law in history in the law. It financed the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, authorized the construction of new prisons and introduced a “three -tractors” law that is obliged to prison for repeated perpetrators.
Trump’s week formed by crime agenda, potential security implementation in Chicago
That was the high waterwork of Democrats to secure crime. In recent years, party leaders, including former President Joe Biden, have apologized for the 1994 Crime Act, now considered racist and overly hard by Left. Especially in the Post-George Floyd era, Democrats have adopted the policy, such as relaxing the police and no-last reform, which made our cities more dangerous and prefer criminals to citizens.
President Trump tries to turn the course. He threatens to send troops to violent cities and has just signed an executive order to eliminate bail without cash, a policy that sends criminals back on the street, often to insult again.
Just as they did decades ago, Democrats are falling in a fall and resist what most citizens welcome. In recent months they have an illegal advocate of criminals in the country, protested the policy of President Trump and now they are opposed to safe streets.
It doesn’t get stupid than that.
Mayor of Chicago calls on Trump’s National Guard Plan ‘Most Flagrant Source of our Constitution’
Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago greeted speculation that President Trump will soon be able to send the National Guard troops to De Windy City with an X -post that called the move ‘the most flagging violation of our constitution in the 21st century’. He continued: “The city of Chicago does not need a military occupation.”
It actually does. A head of this summer says it all: “At least 55 people shot, 8 fatal, on the weekend of July 4.”
Chicago, once a prosperous and ordered city, is set in lawlessness, with a murder rate that holds people in their homes at night. Although the number of murders has fallen this year, Chicago is still one of the most murder -sensitive cities in the US by mid -August, Chicago had sustained 254 murders. In New York City, with a population almost three times larger, there were only 201 murders in the same time frame.
During the last mayor race in 2023, a poll showed that two -thirds of the inhabitants of the city did not feel safe against crime. Asked to rank which issues were most important when choosing the next mayor, 44% said crime and public safety – by far the top issue. The economy and jobs were only 12%.
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Continuing high crime is a reason why polls demonstrate that Johnson has the lowest approval of every mayor in the United States, by 26%. Johnson, two years after the job, is under water with any racial and income group. Despite making a big show of the welcome of illegal immigrants and the deficiency of President Trump on Sanctuary Cities, Johnson is not popular with Hispanics and only earns 26% approval from that group.
Although he has given priority to programs that focus on residents of minorities, Johnson, who is black, also falls short of Afro -Mamerikans, of whom only 38% approve the work that he does.
President Donald Trump speaks while he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, August 25, 2025, in Washington. Stand with the president, from the left, his attorney -general Pam Bondi, vice -president JD Vance, Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth and Minister of Interior Security Kristi Take. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Black voters may not like Johnson because the crime targeted by President Trump mainly occurs in their neighborhoods. The Chicago Crime Lab reports that “black residents [are]… 22 times more chance to be killed compared to white residents. “They also notice:” Neighborhoods with the highest murder figures experience about 68 times more murders than those with the lowest percentages. “
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Johnson rejects concern about crime and said in an interview with NPR that President Trump sending the National Guard “would not be democratic, illegal and expensive”. He also claimed that it would not bring down Chicago’s crime and praised the recent decreases of violent violations in the Windy City.
But in the US the crime has fallen from post-pandemic level; Chicago’s profit is not unique. And cities such as Washington, Chicago and Baltimore – another possible target called by Trump – are not safe.
By sending in federal troops, she makes it safer, and it is not only President Trump who has shown that this is true. In March 2024, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul put 750 national guards in the New York City subways to steal a deadly wave of people pushed for trains and other violations.
Metrocrime fell and Hochul seems to have no plans to remove the soldiers who are still patrolling at the stations and trains. She explained: “I think people will tell you … they feel much safer.” No joke.
In March 2024, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul put 750 national guards in the New York City subways to steal a deadly wave of people pushed for trains and other violations. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, file)
That did not prevent her from criticizing the president and calling his first bet of 800 troops in DC a show of ‘insulting power’. She claims that her situation was different because she had the cooperation of local officials.
Washington, mayor of DC Muriel Bowser speaks at a press conference after President Donald Trump has announced a federal acquisition of the Metropolitan Police Department in the Wilson building on 11 August 2025 in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty images)
It is true that the mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, did not support Trump’s efforts to lower the crime in the district. In the earliest days she sounded positive about the reinforced presence of law enforcement and said: “What I was focused on is the federal increase and how we can get the best from the federal officers we have.”
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Pushed by political allies to follow the Anti-Trump Playbook, her optimism evaporated when she encouraged residents to “ensure that we choose a democratic house so that we have a backstop for this authoritarian push.” An authoritarian push that crime has seen in Washington Platmet.
President Trump bets that the inhabitants of cities plagued by violence and theft will welcome his attack on crime. He is probably right. Democrats must be wise.
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