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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump repeats threat to send in the FBI to Chicago, crowd laughs, thinking it a joke. Moron.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)they are trying to clean up cpd. that is what we need. move along
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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)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)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.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)If they knew what that really meant.
He is threatening to violently attack the citizens of one of the largest cities in the US.