Posted January 5, 2017 6:45 am by Comments

By BearingArms.com Staff

Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama

CHICAGO (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn’t able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year to 762 — the most killings in nearly two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.

Trump pointed to the spike in deaths in a Twitter post earlier this week, writing: “If Mayor can’t do it he must ask for federal help!” Emanuel spokesman Adam Collins responded in a statement by saying that if the federal government wants to help, it can fund summer jobs programs for at-risk youth and pass meaningful gun laws.

Trump isn’t the first to broach the idea that the U.S. government could do more to help stem predominantly gang-related violence on Chicago’s South and West sides. But now, as on earlier occasions, what more the federal government can do isn’t at all clear.

Here’s a look at the issue and some of the options that might be available:

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NATIONAL GUARD

The most direct — and most extreme — intervention would be sending National Guard troops into Chicago to try and tamp the violence. Both the U.S. president and the Illinois governor have the authority to mobilize the …Read the Rest

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