00:00Illinois Democrats claim they don't need President Trump's help to fight crime, but reality
00:04keeps proving the opposite.
00:06Over the Labor Day weekend, Chicago saw 54 people shot, including seven fatally.
00:11Though crime in Chicago overall is down for the year, violence is still through the roof,
00:16with murders running at four times the per capita rate in New York.
00:19On Tuesday, President Trump called Chicago a hellhole and he promised to send troops,
00:24but he's hoping that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker will request them first.
00:28The trouble is, Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson fiercely oppose Trump's help.
00:34They say they don't need it.
00:35Hmm, wonder what the 54 people who got shot this weekend would say about that.
00:40Fact is, there's no better evidence that tolerating crime is a political choice.
00:44When Trump sent the National Guard to Washington, D.C., crime plunged practically overnight.
00:49The city actually went a full 12 days without a single murder.
00:53Even Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser admitted that the surge of officers helped cops beat crime,
00:59and she's taken steps to make it a permanent arrangement.
01:02In the 1990s, New York City made the choice to drive down crime, and it succeeded spectacularly.
01:07And more recently, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch is also focused on precision policing
01:14and quality-of-life crimes, and the city just saw its safest August on record.
01:18Now contrast that with Democratic leaders like Pritzker and Johnson, who are actively choosing pro-crime policies.
01:25They're not only fighting to block extra free-of-charge law enforcement, but Johnson actually says incarceration is immoral.
01:34In California, Governor Gavin Newsom is refusing to budget funds to enforce tougher-on-crime measures that the state's voters passed overwhelmingly last year.
01:44With or without National Guard, tolerating crime is clearly a political decision, and it's one that Democrats keep getting wrong.
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