In the WSJ, Kimberley Strassel discusses with fellow journalist Jason Riley about crime in Democrat-run big cities, in particular, and the effects crime has on poverty, in general.
Last week, Insha Rahman, the head of a far-left advocacy group (the Vera Institute of Justice), urged Democrats not to focus on Trump’s anti-crime moves as a political liability.
Ms. Rahman instructed Democrats not to take the bait in talking about “migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don’t matter to that many Americans.”
Rahman’s point was that crime was going down, mainly due, according to Rahman, to the work done by groups like hers. Yes, her group has worked to dismantle the police.
Kim asks Jason Riley why he is right about his piece titled, “Trump’s Crime Crackdown is a Political Winner.”
Jason Riley, who feels that Trump is on the right side of the issue, tells Kim that Democrats don’t have a leg to stand on here. Democrats, Riely points out, have been in control of our country’s most violent cities: San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and in Cleveland, and “on and on.”
These cities are not in this violent state due to Republican leadership or policies. The loudest voices criticizing Donald Trump come from those who do not live in violent parts of Chicago or NYC. Where they live is in the non-violent parts that are almost crime-free and “lovely places “
But in those exact same cities, there are complete hellholes where people hear bullets nightly and turn up the television, so the children don’t hear them. And the idea that they now have someone in the White House who’s saying, “I hear you.” And let’s be frank, law and order is an issue that Trump believes works for him and he’d rather be talking about it than some other things perhaps. But at the end of the day, it is a real issue affecting real people. Democrats have been in control, and they have not been able to address this problem.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker promise to resist President Trump’s efforts to slash crime. What crime? The WSJ releases statistics for those wondering:
Chicago’s crime problem is real: 58 people were shot over Labor Day weekend.
The limits on federal power, however, are real, too, reports the WSJ.
On Tuesday a judge ruled Mr. Trump’s use of the National Guard in Los Angeles broke the law.
“Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it passed the Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the use of the U.S. military to execute domestic law.”
Amid unrest over Mr. Trump’s deportation efforts, the President called in the National Guard to protect federal assets. The judge says troops, however, actively assisted law enforcement, such as doing traffic control for a raid on a cannabis farm 80 miles from downtown L.A.
If Donald Trump’s anti-crime push makes DC safer, the President will be able to tell Americans living in crime-ridden big cities that they don’t have to tolerate the mayhem and violence that is allowed by their “failing political class.”
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