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[billyerock1991]

Chicago police: Trump never even talked to our 'very top police'

By Laura Clawson
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016 · 10:45 AM MDT

Beautiful. Remember Donald Trump’s claim that he’d talked to an unnamed but “very top” and “rough, tough” Chicago police official, and said rough, tough man had assured Trump that he could put a stop to violence in a week if were just allowed to use the right “tough police tactics”? The Chicago police department could have swatted that story down in a couple different ways. They could have said “our people did not say that,” for instance. But they went another direction—a direction Trump-watchers will find familiar:

"We've discredited this claim months ago," CPD spokesperson Frank Giancamilli said in a statement. "No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign."

Basically, a repeat of the NFL denying having complained to Trump about the presidential debate schedule. “We did not talk to that man” is a pretty definitive rejection of Trump’s claims.

Trump’s campaign responded that “He didn't say in the senior command” but he “spoke with some talented and dedicated police officers on a prior visit.” When Trump said he’d met with “very top police,” we are to believe that he didn’t mean high-ranking, he meant personally awesome. Alternatively we could just believe that he lied, as he has done so many times before.

and yet his lying all the time is ok by his followers ... so don't come and complain about hillary to me ...

 

[Disir]

so don't come and complain about hillary to me ...

Seriously?

 

[washamericom]

Trump is the master of bringing these issues into the spotlight, and discussion forums like this one.

Chicago cops are amazing, and i believe they are being restricted in rules of engagement, just like or military.

 

[billyerock1991]

so don't come and complain about hillary to me ...

Seriously?

SERIOUSLY !!!!!!!!!

 

[Disir]

so don't come and complain about hillary to me ...

Seriously?

SERIOUSLY !!!!!!!!!

I don't wanna hear it. Watching you guys run around in circles is often amusing but for the most part.......you look like shit and there is no other way around it. Trump lies so if Hillary lies then I mean.....it's ok because Trump lies.

 

[whitehall]

The left gets outraged pretty easy these days (except when it comes to Hillary's felonies). My guess is that Trump talked to a top Police official who wishes to remain anonymous.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Chicago police: Trump never even talked to our 'very top police'

By Laura Clawson
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016 · 10:45 AM MDT

Beautiful. Remember Donald Trump’s claim that he’d talked to an unnamed but “very top” and “rough, tough” Chicago police official, and said rough, tough man had assured Trump that he could put a stop to violence in a week if were just allowed to use the right “tough police tactics”? The Chicago police department could have swatted that story down in a couple different ways. They could have said “our people did not say that,” for instance. But they went another direction—a direction Trump-watchers will find familiar:

"We've discredited this claim months ago," CPD spokesperson Frank Giancamilli said in a statement. "No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign."

Basically, a repeat of the NFL denying having complained to Trump about the presidential debate schedule. “We did not talk to that man” is a pretty definitive rejection of Trump’s claims.

Trump’s campaign responded that “He didn't say in the senior command” but he “spoke with some talented and dedicated police officers on a prior visit.” When Trump said he’d met with “very top police,” we are to believe that he didn’t mean high-ranking, he meant personally awesome. Alternatively we could just believe that he lied, as he has done so many times before.

and yet his lying all the time is ok by his followers ... so don't come and complain about hillary to me ...

Trump's entire campaign is based on telling a lie often enough, that so many people believe it that it doesn't matter if it was true or not in the first place.

This shouldn't surprise anyone.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Chicago police: Trump never even talked to our 'very top police'

By Laura Clawson
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016 · 10:45 AM MDT

Beautiful. Remember Donald Trump’s claim that he’d talked to an unnamed but “very top” and “rough, tough” Chicago police official, and said rough, tough man had assured Trump that he could put a stop to violence in a week if were just allowed to use the right “tough police tactics”? The Chicago police department could have swatted that story down in a couple different ways. They could have said “our people did not say that,” for instance. But they went another direction—a direction Trump-watchers will find familiar:

"We've discredited this claim months ago," CPD spokesperson Frank Giancamilli said in a statement. "No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign."

Basically, a repeat of the NFL denying having complained to Trump about the presidential debate schedule. “We did not talk to that man” is a pretty definitive rejection of Trump’s claims.

Trump’s campaign responded that “He didn't say in the senior command” but he “spoke with some talented and dedicated police officers on a prior visit.” When Trump said he’d met with “very top police,” we are to believe that he didn’t mean high-ranking, he meant personally awesome. Alternatively we could just believe that he lied, as he has done so many times before.

and yet his lying all the time is ok by his followers ... so don't come and complain about hillary to me ...

I once dodged sniper fire in Bosnia. When I left the Whitehouse I was dirt poor. You may call me Sir Hillary Edmund

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - the Donald gonna be a law n' order President...

Trump Addresses Law Enforcement Leaders
February 8, 2017 - President Donal Trump said during the joint meeting of the Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs that he expects to find allies among law enforcement officials in the legal testing of his travel ban.

Even a “bad high school student” would understand the law permitting the president to restrict the entry into the country of people he deems a threat, President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., condemning legal challenges to his travel ban. “You can be a lawyer or you don’t have to be a lawyer, if you were a good student in high school or a bad student in high school, you can understand this,” Trump said in remarks to a meeting of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. “And it’s really incredible to me that we have a court case that’s going on so long. Again, a bad high school student would understand this. Anybody would understand this.”

The president has signaled earlier that he expected to find allies among police chiefs and other law enforcement officials against the “horrible, dangerous and wrong” legal testing of his controversial executive order. At the chiefs’ conference, he read a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to a receptive audience while criticizing a panel of federal appeals court judges who are currently challenging the legal basis of his travel ban. “They are interpreting things differently than probably 100 percent of people in this room,” Trump said. Earlier in the morning he had tweeted: “If the U.S. does not win this case as it so obviously should, we can never have the security and safety to which we are entitled. Politics!”

President Donal Trump said during the joint meeting of the Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs that he expects to find allies among law enforcement officials in the legal testing of his travel ban.​

He continued that he will be addressing “police chiefs and sheriffs and will be discussing the horrible, dangerous and wrong decision.” The president has expressed increasing frustration with the mounting legal challenges against his executive order barring the entry of nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from all over the world. The broadest of the court rulings has halted the travel ban nationwide. Among the questions facing the administration is whether Trump has the authority to enact such restrictions and whether the ban is discrimination against Muslims.

Trump maintains the executive order is in the interest of national security. The president had found sympathetic voices among the county sheriffs he gathered at the White House on Tuesday. The group discussed immigrants arriving illegally to the United States, but there were no specific mentions of a terror threat linked to the Islamic State — which Trump has cited as justification for the ban. “You have a big problem with the refugees pouring in, don’t you?” Trump had asked Hennepin County, Minnesota, Sheriff Richard W. Stanek. The sheriff replied: “Yes, we do, sir. ... Rule of law is strong and the proper vetting of individuals is really important to us.”

President Trump Addresses Law Enforcement Leaders | Officer.com

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President Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Protecting Officers
February 9, 2017 - President Donald Trump signed three new executive orders Thursday focused on scaling back crime and violence against police officers. “I’m signing three executive actions today designed to restore safety in America,” Trump said at the swearing-in ceremony of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

Trump said one would “break the back of the criminal cartels that have spread across our nation and are destroying the blood of our youth,” another would create a task force to reduce violent crime and the last would instruct the Department of Justice — now under Sessions’ command — to come up with a plan to stop violence against law enforcement officers. The text of the first order directs the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence to work on coordinating the efforts of federal agencies to catch transnational criminal organizations, in addition to making that issue a “high priority” for federal law enforcement.

The task force order calls on the Attorney General to identify issues in existing law that makes law enforcement “less effective in reducing crime and propose new legislation that could be enacted to improve public safety and reduce crime.” The group is also tasked with evaluating existing crime-related data and suggesting ways to improve it. Trump said in remarks at a White House meeting with sheriffs earlier this week that the murder rate is the highest it has been in “45 to 47 years.” Politifact has rated that statement false, pointing out statistics show the murder rate in the U.S. is considerably lower than it was in the early 1990s. “Specifically, the number of murders declined by 42 percent between 1993 and 2014, even as the U.S. population rose by 25 percent over the same period,” Louis Jacobson wrote. “So while homicides have recently risen — a legitimate concern, experts say — they are far below their high levels of the early 1990s, when the nation’s population was much smaller.”

President Donald Trump signed three new executive orders Thursday morning that he said were focused on scaling back crime and violence against police officers.​

The final order will create “new federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing federal crimes, in order to prevent violence against federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers.” There were 135 officer fatalities in 2016, up 10 percent from 123 in 2015, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. However, that number tends to highly fluctuate year to year, and has overall been trending down every decade since the 1970s. There were an average of 188 officer deaths per year in the 1970s, compared with 108 average officer deaths per year so far in the 2010s.

The majority of officer deaths in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were due to firearms, while in the 2000s and so far in the 2010s the majority were traffic-related. Sessions reiterated Trump’s claims about rising crime in the U.S. “We have a crime problem. I wish the rise that we’re seeing in crime in America today was some sort of aberration or blip,” Sessions said, adding that he thought it was a “dangerous permanent trend.” Sessions also voiced support for Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries, saying, “We need a lawful system of immigration. That’s not wrong, that’s not immoral, that’s not indecent.”

President Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Protecting Officers

 

[waltky]

Chicago on track to surpass last year's murder rate...

Chicago Passes 630 Homicides
Dec. 11, 2017 - With three weeks left in the year, Chicago has so far posted 636 homicides, trailing this time last year by 118 killings.

With three weeks left in the year, Chicago has so far posted 636 homicides, trailing this time last year by 118 killings. But as the city closes in on the end of the year, it far surpasses the homicide counts as of this day in 2014 and 2015. In 2015, the city saw 467 such deaths, and 416 in 2014. This weekend, five more people were shot and killed across the city. They were among 19 who were shot from Friday afternoon to early Monday, totaling 3,429 shooting victims so far in 2017.

Two Chicago cops sit in their police vehicle in the alley after a man was killed after he was shot in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, according to Chicago police.​

The weekend’s first homicide happened Friday in the South Side’s Back of the Yards neighborhood around 5:50 p.m., police said. A 34-year-old man, identified as Manuel Godinez, was shot in the neck in the 4300 block of South Wood Street after someone fired at him from a minivan. Two men were also killed in separate shootings within 20 hours Saturday and Sunday mornings in the Far South Side’s Fernwood neighborhood.

In the weekend’s latest homicide, a 24-year-old died from a gunshot wound to the leg Sunday evening, police said. He was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital after the shooting in the 1300 block of South Komensky Avenue on the West Side. Also among those shot was a 13-year-old boy who was injured in a double shooting in the South Side’s South Shore neighborhood Friday around 10:40 p.m. An 18-year-old man was also injured.

Chicago Passes 630 Homicides for 2017

 

[waltky]

Chicago Police Only Solve One in Every 20 Shootings...

Report: Chicago Police Only Solve One in Every 20 Shootings
AUGUST 9, 2018 - A University of Chicago Crime Lab analysis of Chicago police records found that the department cleared just 5% of shootings in 2016, a year in which violence hit records unseen in two decades.

After 74 people were shot over one of the city’s most violent weekends in more than two years, Chicago police said they would flood the city’s crime-wracked neighborhoods with hundreds more cops while acknowledging that no arrests for those shootings had been made as of late Tuesday. A day earlier, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and police Superintendent Eddie Johnson had pleaded with the community to come forward with information to hold people accountable for the carnage, including 12 fatalities. “You all know who these individuals are,” a frustrated Johnson said at one point. “If you know who did this, be a neighbor, speak up,” Emanuel added. But the Police Department’s struggle to solve violent crime or earn the cooperation of residents is not a new problem — nor one that will be solved quickly, said experts, cops and law enforcement leaders alike on Tuesday.

The fear and discomfort in reporting on neighbors is real and so, too, is the distrust in a department that is in an epic struggle to repair frayed and broken relationships with minority communities, they said. “I think it is disheartening that we are at Tuesday after the weekend we had without anyone being charged,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx told the Tribune in a phone interview. “The feeling that people can do this with impunity makes the work that much more difficult.” On Tuesday, the Police Department refused to release current data on how many homicides and shootings it solves — known as clearance rates — telling the Tribune to file a Freedom of Information Act request. But past data collected by the Tribune show the department’s clearance rate for homicides has been declining in recent years, hitting about 17 percent last year. That number doesn’t represent convictions or even arrests for homicides but rather cases in which the department identifies a suspect, regardless of whether that person is ever charged.

Chicago police investigate a shooting on West Lake Street near North Kostner Avenue in Chicago, Ill. on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018.​

Even fewer of Chicago’s hundreds of shootings each year are solved. A University of Chicago Crime Lab analysis of Chicago police records found that the department cleared just 5 percent of shootings in 2016, a year in which violence hit records unseen in two decades. In a year when shootings have fallen 17 percent citywide and homicides by even more, the violence between 3 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Monday was a jolt. Many of the shootings took place in three West Side police districts and one on the South Side, officials said. According to Tribune data, it marked the worst violence of any single weekend in Chicago since at least before 2016. And Sunday saw more victims shot in a single day since at least September 2011, when the Tribune began tracking every shooting in Chicago. For the entire day, 47 people were shot, including a stunning 40 during a seven-hour period early Sunday.

Johnson, who said the shootings were mostly rooted in gang conflicts, on Tuesday said the department has immediately deployed an additional 430 officers to the neighborhoods most wracked by the shooting. Those numbers will grow to an additional 600 officers on the weekend. “We’ll be there as long as it takes,” Johnson said. “We have a responsibility to keep these folks safe.” He said officers working the extra hours would have their afternoon shifts extended into the overnight hours, when there’s a higher likelihood for violence to erupt. At the news conference Monday, Johnson acknowledged that the department has trust issues to overcome in neighborhoods hit hardest by violence.

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