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Trump repeats threat to send in the FBI to Chicago, crowd laughs, thinking it a joke. Moron. (Original Post) Fred Sanders Jan 2017 OP
Trumps Boasts of Sending Feds to Chicago, But Does He Even Have That Power? Gothmog Jan 2017 #1
Interesting. The last paragraph says Trump has retracted, now saying he meant federal aid. Pattern? Fred Sanders Jan 2017 #2
they are already here. obama sent them. mopinko Jan 2017 #3
The traitorous FBI should fuck off. onecaliberal Jan 2017 #4
Trump is jamming his hatred up Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #5
crowd laughs thinking it is a joke mercuryblues Jan 2017 #6
The FBI already has a hefty presence in Chicago. MineralMan Jan 2017 #7
9/10 top murder cities are in red states- Chicago is 12 or 13... bettyellen Jan 2017 #8
St. Louis murder rate is twice that of Chicago. Why Chicago being picked out? Fred Sanders Jan 2017 #9
Maybe those people wouldn't laugh... Cracklin Charlie Jan 2017 #10

mopinko

(69,806 posts)
3. they are already here. obama sent them.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 02:48 PM
Jan 2017

they are trying to clean up cpd. that is what we need. move along

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Trump is jamming his hatred up
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 02:50 PM
Jan 2017

certain Democrat's butt. Obama-Emanuel-next will be Reid,it's all about pandering to his idiot racist supporters. If you remember 1968,it all started with Propaganda.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
6. crowd laughs thinking it is a joke
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 02:58 PM
Jan 2017

That is why trumpster fire brings his paid laughers and clappers. How else would the crowd know if he was joking or not.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
7. The FBI already has a hefty presence in Chicago.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 02:59 PM
Jan 2017

But, here's the deal: The FBI does not have the manpower or background knowledge to take over policing of a city as large as Chicago. Not even close. Policing is done primarily by the line cops on the street and their immediate supervisors. Chicago's police force numbers include about 12,250 officers, along with about 2000 other employees.

The FBI has about 13,800 actual agents and about 22,000 other employees, total. It cannot field a force of officers sufficient to police Chicago. No way.

Trump has no freaking idea of what he's talking about. Now, the FBI could, conceivably take over the administration of the CPD, but that would not materially change how the line LEOs would behave, and the FBI doesn't know Chicago well enough to actually handle the job.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
10. Maybe those people wouldn't laugh...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 03:54 PM
Jan 2017

If they knew what that really meant.

He is threatening to violently attack the citizens of one of the largest cities in the US.

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