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This Chicago resident says our city doesn't need the National Guard to reduce an already declining crime rate.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/chicago-doesnt-need-national-guard-to.htmlSending the National Guard into Washington, and taking control of the police force there hasn't changed that city's declining crime rate one bit. It was already lower than it had been in a decade, largely due to the efforts of the Biden administration. Trump has the National Guard pick up trash, but really, there's not much they're able to do that contributes to lowering a crime rate that is already on the way down because the city's police department finally got some resources it needed to combat the root problems of high crime.
Compare crime rates across the country during Trump's first term in office to Biden's, and the difference is notably significant. Well, that's what happens when the government invests in law enforcement. We should, since we claim to believe in the rule of law, but Trump never would. Biden did, and it made a difference. Maybe not to those who are ignorant of facts, like most of the MAGA crowd, but they're not there to actually witness the difference anyway. I am living in Chicago, and I love it, feel safe, and I can tell the crime rate is going down without Trump's help.
We need leaders who can see through the thin veneer of Trump's calling out the National Guard to Washington, and to taking control of the police. A mid-term election is coming up. I think he will use these tools to keep Democrats from taking the seats they apparently are going to win back in the House and Senate, in a big way. That ends the MAGA, Heritage Foundation 2025 agenda. He's told us a thousand different ways and a hundred different times he's going to rig and steal elections in his favor.
Maybe we should believe him?
Compare crime rates across the country during Trump's first term in office to Biden's, and the difference is notably significant. Well, that's what happens when the government invests in law enforcement. We should, since we claim to believe in the rule of law, but Trump never would. Biden did, and it made a difference. Maybe not to those who are ignorant of facts, like most of the MAGA crowd, but they're not there to actually witness the difference anyway. I am living in Chicago, and I love it, feel safe, and I can tell the crime rate is going down without Trump's help.
We need leaders who can see through the thin veneer of Trump's calling out the National Guard to Washington, and to taking control of the police. A mid-term election is coming up. I think he will use these tools to keep Democrats from taking the seats they apparently are going to win back in the House and Senate, in a big way. That ends the MAGA, Heritage Foundation 2025 agenda. He's told us a thousand different ways and a hundred different times he's going to rig and steal elections in his favor.
Maybe we should believe him?
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