{"id":589191,"date":"2021-07-12T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589191"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:06:39","slug":"biden-to-send-strike-force-to-chicago-to-help-city-handle-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-send-strike-force-to-chicago-to-help-city-handle-violent-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Send \u2018Strike Force\u2019 To Chicago To Help City Handle Violent Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-send-strike-force-to-chicago-to-help-city-handle-violent-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233853289.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden will send a \u201cstrike force\u201d to Chicago, Illinois, to help curb the city\u2019s shocking spike in violence \u2014 but the \u201cstrike force\u201d will be focused on \u201cgun trafficking\u201d and not specifically on crime prevention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/biden-chicago-violence-strike-force\">Fox News reports<\/a> that Biden is sending \u201cstrike forces\u201d into several major cities \u2014 Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C \u2014 in order to help officials in those cities \u201ccrack down on illegal gun trafficking,\u201d even though it is not clear that \u201cillegal gun trafficking\u201d is directly responsible for spiking crime.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot discussed the \u201cstrike force\u201d plan after meeting briefly with Biden on the tarmac at Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope and my expectation is that they\u2019re going to be coming relatively soon. I\u2019ve made no secret of the fact that this is a matter of incredible urgency and I think the president\u2019s plan is to make a difference in localities like Chicago this summer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe&nbsp;strike force teams will coordinate with&nbsp;the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms&nbsp;(ATF) and share information with local and state law enforcement agencies about where firearms originate and where they are used to commit crimes in an effort to bring down gun-dealing rings,\u201d Fox added.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the plan in June, though, at the time, the Department of Justice had not decided on which cities would receive a targeted strike force of federal agents. Garland did, however, make clear that the strike forces would focus on illegal guns and the so-called \u201ciron pipeline,\u201d which carries handguns and other weapons from states with lax gun laws to states with strict gun laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with our local partners to tackle violent crime is one of the Justice Department\u2019s most important responsibilities,\u201d Garland said in a June statement announcing the program. \u201cToday, the department is taking another concrete step to address violent crime and illegal firearms trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials in New York state, Fox News noted, have complained that the \u201ciron pipeline\u201d supplies criminals in New York City; Chicago\u2019s mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2021\/06\/29\/aldermen-demand-hearing-crime-lightfoot-dismisses-rancor-city-hall\">Lightfoot claims<\/a> that sellers in Indiana are supplying criminals in Chicago and that Chicago suburbs have \u201cvery lax gun laws,\u201d that allow criminals to purchase weapons and traffick them back into the city.<\/p>\n<p>Those problems, however, predate the current crisis. And&nbsp;unlike many major cities, where the number of shootings is still lower than it was in 2020, Chicago appears to be facing a more violent 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cstrike force\u201d also does not address what Lightfoot claims to be a primary driver in violence: racism.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the city\u2019s public television station, WTTW, Lightfoot claimed that the \u201cviolence is a manifestation of systemic problems, and it\u2019s a public health crisis. When you see, in way too many neighborhoods, a lack of jobs, a lack of investment \u2014 these are historic, decades-long problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 1,600 people have been shot so far in Chicago in 2021 \u2014 an 11% increase compared to 2020 and a 58% increase compared to 2019, according to the Chicago Police Department\u2019s crime statistics for the week ending June 28,\u201d Fox News noted. That number includes around a dozen children and at least 36 police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot, notably, refused then-President Donald Trump\u2019s offer of federal assistance to help curb the city\u2019s violence in 2020, though she did allow then-Attorney General William Barr to assist with breaking up organized crime rings that were also dealing in stolen weapons.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will send a \u201cstrike force\u201d to Chicago, Illinois, to help curb the city\u2019s shocking spike in violence \u2014 but the \u201cstrike force\u201d will be focused on \u201cgun &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314513,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233853289.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden To Send \u2018Strike Force\u2019 To Chicago To Help City Handle Violent Crime","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233853289.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden To Send \u2018Strike Force\u2019 To Chicago To Help City Handle Violent Crime","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589191","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}