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President Donald Trump said he is looking to crack down on crime in other cities in the country and is eyeing Chicago, a Democrat-led city that he
has long been a target of the president's criticism.

He has said that Washington, D.C., would be a model, a city where he
deployed the National Guard, surged federal law enforcement and took
control of the local police force.

Trump made several off-the-cuff comments about the National Guard's
deployment in the nation's capital, now in its eighth day, during a news conference in the Oval Office on Friday about World Cup plans.

"The National Guard has done such an incredible job working with the
police," he said. "And after we do this, we'll go to another location, and we'll make it safe also. We're gonna make our country very safe. We're
going to make our cities very, very safe."

Trump singled out Chicago as the next city he would "make safe," repeating
his claims, without providing evidence, that crime there is out of control
and the current Democratic leadership wasn't doing enough to address the problem. The president and Vice President JD Vance claimed that people in Chicago were "screaming" for help.

"African American ladies, beautiful ladies are saying, please, President
Trump, come to Chicago, please," Trump claimed, adding that he "did great
with the Black vote."

Crime statistics from Chicago's Police Department show that overall crime
in the city is down 13% year to date compared to the same period in 2024,
with 59,206 reported crime instances compared to 68,165 the year before. Murders year to date and robberies are down 31% and 33% respectively
compared to the same period in 2024, according to the police.

Crime is up 40% since 2021, when there were 42,250 reported incidents year-to-date, but murders and robberies saw a drop of 50% and 11%, respectively, in those four years, according to the Chicago PD data.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-sets-sights-chicago-make-safer- seeks-2b/story?id=124887436

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