Doescher also said minority residents are “disproportionately” the victims of crime in Chicago, saying 3 in 5 aggravated homicide victims are black. She added that Chicago’s aggravated homicide rate is at a “five-year high.”<\/p>\n

“And look, I live in ground zero of Trump’s actions here, right? I live in northern Virginia, but I take the subway into Washington, D.C., every single day, and I tell you it’s been a sea change. No homicides in almost two weeks,” Doescher said on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria Bartiromo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>“I feel so much safer, and as a previous victim of a violent crime in D.C., I just hope Trump keeps this going on to any state or city that fights it because those are the ones that need it the most,” Doescher said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3790244\/trump-crime-crackdown-issue-blow-up-blue-city-dem-coalition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP SEES CRIME CRACKDOWN AS THE ISSUE TO BLOW UP BLUE-CITY DEMOCRATIC COALITION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>‘s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3789224\/pritzker-blanket-statement-doesnt-apply-all-of-chicago-salena-zito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salena Zito criticized Pritzker’s resistance<\/a> to accepting Trump’s help in Chicago, saying there are “two sides” to the city. She said crime is “a really <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wi-voter-turnout-proves-media-lied-about-voter-id\/\" title=\"WI Voter Turnout Proves Media Lied About Voter ID\">big problem&rdquo<\/a>; for one of those sides, adding that it’s “insulting” for the governor to make a “blanket statement” for the entire city.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3790926\/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-blames-red-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">“red states” are playing a role<\/a> in “the endless flow of illegal guns” into the city, listing Louisiana, Mississippi, and Indiana as examples. He asked the federal government to help the city address this instead of deploying more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">law enforcement officers<\/a> or the National Guard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities rejecting Trump’s crime aid ‘need it most’: Doescher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2481917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25245703942069_135b8a.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50403,51050,5894,57311,61689],"class_list":["post-2481916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-crime-2","tag-law-enforcement-2","tag-politics","tag-tiana-doescher","tag-urban-policy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25245703942069_135b8a.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481920,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481916\/revisions\/2481920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}