Illinois Democrats refuse Trump’s national guard for Chicago’s crime

Illinois Democrats draw a red line against the victim of the law and the order of President Donald Trump, rejecting his proposals to deploy the National Guard to Chicago despite the Windy City police service confronted with an endowment shortage that has persisted from the anti-clip rhetoric of the pandemic era of 2020.

“We are waiting for a Chicago call. We are going to repair Chicago. And once again, DC is right now that you can go out,” said Trump on Monday morning in faith in the Bible Museum, referring to his Washington federalization, the DC police which was considered a success when cleaning the crime.

The leaders of Chicago and Illinois, however, had the idea of ​​calling Trump repeatedly withdrawn to additional assistance.

“No federal troops in the city of Chicago, no militarized force in the city of Chicago,” said the left mayor in Chicago, Brandon Johnson, during a demonstration against Trump’s dried intention to send the National Guard. “We are going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago. We will protect the humanity of each person in the city of Chicago.”

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The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, is for journalists while President Trump weighs the sending of troops to Chicago. (Kamil Krazaczynski / Getty Image)

Chicago has long struggled with violent crimes, marked in recent years by waves of shootings across the city – especially during vacation weekends – as well as flights from Smash and Grab and illegal street races that increased after 2020. The police service, which reached a recent overview of the endowment in 2019, saw a decrease in jurored officers Anti-political with the last rhetoric of the last circulation “challenge of the workforce.

Crime as a whole in Chicago, however, has decreased since 2023, according to city data, including a 21.6% drop in overall crime to August 25 compared to the same period from last year. The homicide rate for the city in 2024 was seated at around 17.4 homicides per 100,000 people, which is also lower than rates in more dangerous cities such as Memphis, Tennessee – which saw 40.6 homicides per 100,000 people in 2024.

Simultaneously with a bloody wave that started in 2020, the Chicago police service was shaken by endowment problems from the same year. Force has made progress by strengthening its endowment levels and reached a summit of 13,353 members sworn in 2019, before this figure fell as “police failure” and riots spread through the country in response to the murder of the police of George Floyd in May in 2020.

Chicago police have seen their endowment levels fall since 2020, according to city data. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Five years later, the Chicago Police Service is still short by more than 2,000 officers, according to city data. THE City of Chicago The Inspector General, who has retained data on the endowment levels since 2017, shows that there are 11,602 limited members in July 2025. The city scheduled for 13,742 sworn members during the 2025 financial year, according to data from the city inspector general.

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Fox News Digital contacted the police service for data on police staff earlier in September, but did not receive an answer.

Press articles between 2020 at last year represented a low fallout for residents and city visitors due to the police shortage.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Center, speaks; Flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson, addressing the media while President Trump floats sending the National Guard to the city. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

The 911 calls remained unanswered, the cops unable to respond immediately to calls for help when other high -level crimes broke out in the city.

An analysis of police calls in 2023 revealed that more than 50% of appeals 911 considered a high priority – as confrontations which represented an imminent threat to an appellant or required a timely police action – did not give an immediate response due to the staff shortage, Illinois non -profit policy reported in 2023. In 2019, when police staff were high, 19% of priority 911 calls could not be set up immediately,

Calls for crimes such as the domestic battery, mental health disorders, a car accident and active fighting remained unanswered one evening in October 2024 after a shooting took place outside a concert which required a strong police presence, a local point of sale WNG 9 reported last year.

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The number of sworn police members fell by around 13% between August 2017 and June 2022, a non -profit organization called the Civic Federation found. Active officers had to work additional overtime to fill the gap, Local outlet wttw Reported in 2022, which led to a price of $ 210.5 million for overtime costs that year – which was an increase of more than 50% compared to overtime costs in 2021.

Johnson’s office and the Office of the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker did not respond to the requests for comments from Fox News Digital Friday by questioning the endowment levels of the Chicago police service, why they rejected by asking the federal government additional assistance on law and order, considering that the force did not come back to pre-pale endorship levels or if they believe that sufficient.

Johnson vehemently had Trump’s calls for the repression of crime in Chicago, especially in August that the current incarceration rate of criminals in the nation is “racist”.

The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, fiercely rejected President Trump’s calls to a federal repression on crime in Chicago. (Apostolic Church of God)

“We cannot incarcerate our path of violence; we have already tried this, and we have ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the problems of crime and violence,” Johnson said at a press conference last month.

“Dependence on prisons and incarceration in this country, we have exceeded this. It is racist, it is immoral, it is impious, and it is not the way of reducing violence.”

Pritzker qualified Trump’s proposals as useless and a form of Trump would have pushed “authoritarianism” on the population.

“I have invested considerably in the police, but we have also made massive investments in community violence in intervention.

Massive demonstrations broke out in Chicago during the weekend in opposition to a potential repression of crime, including disputed demonstrators with the deportation efforts of the administration of illegal immigrants in the city.

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President Donald Trump federally has Washington police, DC, in August and envisages similar repression in other cities accumulated by crime. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)

Trump said he had an “obligation” to protect the American people and stressed the notorious weekends of Chicago as proof that the city needs help.

“Do you know how many people were killed in Chicago last weekend? Eight. How many people were killed in Chicago in the previous week? Seven. How many people injured? Sixty-four people were injured. You think there is worse than that? I do not think that the president shares a meme,” Chicago about knowing why he was titled.

Vehicle of the Chicago Police Department on City Street. (Beata Zawrzel / Nurphoto via Getty Images)

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Trump federalized the Washington Police Service, DC, in August as part of his campaign, undertakes to reduce crime trends and promote law and order policies, and have turned his attention to similar efforts in other cities that have undergone crime problems. Trump praised the Federalization of DC, which led to more than 2,000 arrests, as success and example for other cities to call for the federal government.