Trump Always Calls Out Chicago, but City Closest to Mar-a-Lago Has Comparable Crime Rate
Trump Always Calls Out Chicago, but City Closest to Mar-a-Lago Has Comparable Crime Rate
by Corky Siemaszko
Chicago is the poster city for violent crime to President Trump, but he's got some mean streets right in his Florida backyard.
The city of West Palm Beach, which sits just across the Intracoastal Waterway from Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago Resort — aka the Winter White House — on exclusive Palm Beach, had a violent crime rate in 2015 that was equal to that of the Windy City, according to federal crime records.
There were 23 homicides in a city of just 104,919 residents. And the rate of violent crime, which also includes rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults, was 9 for every 1,000 residents — the same as the far bigger Chicago, records show.
While Trump regularly rails about crime in the city that is the hometown of his predecessor Barack Obama and birthplace of Hillary Clinton, he's not said a peep about the past troubles in the city that he drives through every time he comes to Florida.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-always-calls-out-chicago-city-closest-mar-lago-has-n722056?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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