Delphine Chery, as well as anyone, is known for the crime of intractable violence in Chicago. In 1992, her teenage daughter was shot in one of the city’s most severe neighborhoods – one of the passers -by that caught fire on a gang. Twenty years after a suburb, south of the city, her son claimed.
She said, “Don’t think this will happen twice in your life.”
Chicago was preparing for weeks to deploy President Donald Trump to the National Guard forces to the third largest city in the country. Although Trump said that the forces will help fight crime in a city described as “hell”, his administration was narrow about the details of the operation, including when it will start, the extent of its continuation, the number of forces that will be used and the role they will play in implementing the civil law.
Trump has also deviated back and forth to send forces to Chicago – sometimes he insists that he will act unilaterally to publish it and at other points indicating that he prefers Send them to New Orleans Or some other cities in the state of “their ruler wants us to come.” Recently, this week he said that Chicago “may be far away” after the National Guard was sent To Memphis.
Although Chicago has one of the highest rates of armed violence in any major American city for some time, the city’s and state leaders oppose an overwhelming majority of the planned process, describing it as the political theater. Even directly affected people, including people who lost their loved ones due to violent crime, wonder how to send in the forces any permanent effect on fighting this.
With unknown Chicago deployment plans, National Guard roads were used in Los Angeles and Washington This summer may provide evidence.
In June, Trump Thousands of guard forces deployed To Los Angeles amid protests against his administration’s immigration campaign there. Although the forces were initially appointed to guard the federal property, they provided protection for immigration agents during the raids and participated in a Put off In a garden in a large migrant neighborhood in Los Angeles, local officials believe that it aims to sow fear.
In August, Trump announced He was putting the Washington police force under its control and filling the federal forces to reduce crime and displacement there. The forces that were deployed were patrolled around the metro stations and in the most tourist parts in the country’s capital. But they were also monitored to capture garbage and foliage in the city’s gardens.
The White House stated that more than 2,100 arrests in Washington in the first few weeks after Trump announced that it was expressing federal forces. Mayor Morel Boser is attributed to federal publication with a decrease in crime, including a 87 % decrease in speed cases, but also criticized repeated migration arrests by disguised ice agents. However, and The high rate of unusual cases that are dropped He has at least one judge, including one judge, wondering whether the prosecutors are making shipping decisions properly and examining the cases.
Washington is unique in that it is a federal region that is subject to Laws that give Trump’s authority To take over the local police force for up to 30 days. The decision to use forces to try to combat crime in other democratic cities will be an important escalation.
Although the Trump administration did not say what the forces and Chicago parts would do, they explicitly promised an increase of federal agents aimed at enforcing immigration. The policies of the alleged resort in the city Among the most powerful country The local police prohibited cooperation with the implementation of federal immigration.
Chicago is not the only city that democracy leads in Trump’s scenes-it is also mentioned Baltimore As a possible goal. But it seems that Trump harbored a special congestion on the city of Windy City, and he warns of “the end of the world now”-in the form of social media earlier this month: “I love the smell of deportation in the morning. Chicago is about to know why the Ministry of War is called.”
However, the president’s criticism often focuses on how city leaders and democratic state are dealing with crime.
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Ruler JB Pritzker have repeatedly pointed out a decrease in the crime in Chicago and asked for more federal funding for prevention programs instead of sending the National Guard.
Last year, the city had 573 murders, or 21 per 100,000 residents, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology. This is 25 % less than 2020 and was less than many other major American cities. Like most large cities, violent crime does not spread evenly in Chicago, where most fires occur on the southern and west sides.
“If it is related to safety, the Trump administration will not reduce $ 158 million in federal funding for violence prevention programs this year,” said Yolanda Andrazo, CEO of non -profit weapons violence.
After the 16 -year -old Sherry’s daughter, Tiza, was killed in the Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago with a stray bullet fired by a 14 -year -old man to members of a competitor, the destroyed mother moved her family to Hazel Christ, a suburb of south of the city.
“We were planning a concert. She would have gone to the college to be a nurse,” Sherry said.
Her son, Tyler, was shot in the Al -Dhulwah house corridor of the family in 2012, 20 years after the killing of Tyesa.
Although the death of her children made cherries defend anti -violence – she sits in one of the goals of the Illinois Council – she does not think that bringing forces will do anything to combat crime in Chicago, and that it can make the streets more dangerous.
Sherry said of the National Guard: “They will not ask questions.” “They were trained to kill in the sight of the horizon.”
Terrevon Bossley, who was 7 years old when his 18 -year -old brother, Terril, was fired in 2006 while unloading drums outside the church before the band’s rehearsal, and it is believed to send the forces not the solution.
“There is a lot of love and a lot of society in Chicago,” said Bossley, who is still killing his brother without a solution. “There are societies that need help. When these resources are provided, they become beautiful like the city center, just like the northern side.”
Like Johnson, Pritzker and other critics of the deployment of the promised forces, Bousley believes that better financing will make a real positive difference in parts of the city with the highest crime and poverty rates.
“It is not as if we had a police shortage,” Busli said. “The National Guard and the police appear after the shooting. They have not appeared before. This does not stop or save anyone.”
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Christine Fernando, the Associated Press correspondent, contributed to this report.