First,
Trump to award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Trump announced Monday that he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
"As President of the United States of America, I am pleased to announce that Rudy Giuliani, the greatest Mayor in the history of New York City, and an equally great American Patriot, will receive THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country's highest civilian honor," Mr. Trump said in a social media post.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rudy-giuliani-presidential-medal-of-freedom/Second, yes, crime and violence were again terrible this weekend in Chicago.
54 shot over weekend in Chicago as governor rejects Trump's threat to send in National Guard
The violence came as Trump criticized the governor's handling of crime.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/35-shot-weekend-chicago-governor-rejects-trumps-threat/story?id=125134744When Trump sends in troops (National Guard, Federal troops, agents from other Federal agencies, any combinations) will almost assuredly lower the crime rate for that period such forces are deployed, such as what occurred in DC. BUT that does not solve the long-term problem of crime. That merely dampens and delays crime. This action in DC is a bandage on a major gunshot wound. If Trump does the same in Chicago, this is more "risky" politically and legally as this is not DC:
Washington, D.C. is not a state but a federal district created by the U.S. Constitution to serve as the nation's capital, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
(AI Overview)
I said earlier (Aug. 25, this very thread) what can help lower crime and poverty: education, and I mean GOOD education, and economic opportunities are very important to any poverty reduction efforts. I am not convinced that the Great Society efforts started by LBJ and BILLIONS of Federal dollars really "solved" or fixed the issue of poverty. Massive Government programs with LOTS of $$$ is not the ONLY "answer" or solution.
Part of the Crime problem in the USA:
1) too many guns;
2) too many guns in the hands of criminals;
3) too many guns in the hands of crazies;
4) too much poverty, leading to gangs and drugs and criminals;
5) poor public schools (lots of folks to blame here);
7) too many lenient public prosecutors;
8 ) too many unfilled police positions; and
9) poorly run cities, mostly ALL by Democrats.
10) Too few police officers (#8 above) lead to fewer arrests and thus LOWER crime due to lack of ACTUAL REPORTING and NOT due to an actual decrease in Crime.
What does reduce crime? Here is one study on the matter:
What Reduced Crime in New York City
During the 1990s, crime rates in New York City dropped dramatically, even more than in the United States as a whole. Violent crime declined by more than 56 percent in the City, compared to about 28 percent in the nation as whole. Property crimes tumbled by about 65 percent, but fell only 26 percent nationally.
Many attribute New York's crime reduction to specific "get-tough" policies carried out by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration. The most prominent of his policy changes was the aggressive policing of lower-level crimes, a policy which has been dubbed the "broken windows" approach to law enforcement. In this view, small disorders lead to larger ones and perhaps even to crime. As Mr. Guiliani told the press in 1998, "Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other."
In Carrots, Sticks and Broken Windows (NBER Working Paper No. 9061), co-authors Hope Corman and Naci Mocan find that the "broken windows" approach does not deter as much crime as some advocates argue, but it does have an effect, particularly on robbery and motor vehicle theft. They use misdemeanor arrests as a measure of broken windows policing. (...)
Corman and Mocan identify several factors that could affect crime rates. For example, the police force in New York City grew by 35 percent in the 1990s, the numbers of prison inmates rose 24 percent, and there were demographic changes, including a decline in the number of youths. (...)
The police measure that most consistently reduces crime is the arrest rate of those involved in crime, the study finds. Felony arrest rates (except for motor vehicle thefts) rose 50 to 70 percent in the 1990s. When arrests of burglars increased 10 percent, the number of burglaries fell 2.7 to 3.2 percent. (... more stats)
The contribution of such deterrence measures (the "stick") offers more explanation for the decline in New York City crime than the improvement in the economy, the authors conclude. Between 1990 and 1999, homicide dropped 73 percent, burglary 66 percent, assault 40 percent, robbery 67 percent, and vehicle hoists 73 percent. The authors' model manages to explain between 33 and 86 percent of those declines.
https://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/what-reduced-crime-new-york-cityUnlike ConfedSS, I do not see such actions by Trump as a panacea to urban crime. This is basically another Trump political stunt to generate votes.