Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. We will clean up there next. It will not even be difficult. The people of Chicago are screaming for us to come there, says Trump.
He has previously said that the National Guard, who began arriving in Washington DC on August 12, will save the capital from "crime and bloodshed".
The National Guard has done a fantastic job together with the police. We have not needed to deploy the military, which we are willing to do if we must, says Trump.
We will make our country and our cities very safe.
Crime in the capital is higher than the average in the USA, but the trend is clearly declining, according to the politically independent think tank Council on Criminal Justice.
In Chicago, crime is also higher than the average, but there too the trend is declining. The city has, like Washington DC, a democratic mayor.
