Donald Trump: Chicago Could Stop Violence ‘In One Week’

While Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump believes he might be able to solve Chicago’s crime problem in a week with his less-than-well-sourced platitudes on rough and tough policing, it turns out no one in the upper echelons of the Chicago Police Department consulted him on those magical ideas.

Trump’s most recent comments came during an appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” Monday in which host Bill O’Reilly asked Trump about some of his previous comments on community-police relations and his promise that “chaos and violence” in cities like Milwaukee would come to a halt under a Trump presidency.

Murders in Chicago are up almost 50 percent compared to a year ago.

In response, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks explained that when Trump said “very top officers” and “a top police officer” he meant that the individuals he spoke to were “capable, smart and talented”, not that they were high-ranking. They right now are not tough. I mean, I could tell you this very long and quite boring story but when I was in Chicago, I got to meet a couple of very top police.

“I’m sure he’s got a strategy”, Trump added. “‘Do you think you could stop it?’ He said, ‘Mr”.

O’Reilly even seemed a little incredulous: “You can’t beat them up”, he said. “He said, ‘Mr. Trump, within one week, we could stop much of this horror show that’s going on'”. Police at the time said that, too, was a crock and no one with CPD ever advised Trump to cancel his rally and speech.

“The best way to address crime is through a commitment to community policing and a commitment to stronger laws to keep illegal guns and repeat violent offenders off the street”. He went to retrieve it and looked up to see multiple police officers running at him, shotguns drawn.

Despite Trump and O’Reilly’s preoccupation with “chaos and violence” in cities, “bad guys”, and violent attacks on police, an analysis done by the Brennan Center finds that murder rates in the 30 largest urban cities are still at “all-time historic lows” based on figures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation released at the end of 2015. “This is a child!” they yelled, while the police insisted Preston “[matched] the description” of the suspect they sought.

TRUMP: All I know is this.

The TV exchange continued with O’Reilly telling Trump, “You have to have a warrant to arrest people”.

“No, he just, he wants to use tough police tactics”.

“You know the expression, you have nothing to lose?” O’Reilly pressed Trump on this. Shortly after he chose to skip out on his rally at UIC, he said he made the decision on the advice of law enforcement.

Later that day, then-Police Supt.

Not that the mayor has done much to halt the bloodshed or restore faith and trust in the police department thus far.