CSNbbs

http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/tru...gun-crime/

Quote:In January, President Donald Trump tweeted that he’d “send in the Feds!” to Chicago, citing the city’s miserable statistics on shootings.

Well, his administration did just that.

On Thursday, authorities confirmed that about 20 additional agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been sent to Chicago to combat gun violence here.

And on Friday morning, Trump tweeted about the whole thing, saying “Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this year!”

Quote:The ATF agents are working with about 20 counterparts from the Chicago Police Department and Illinois State Police on a strike force whose mission is to solve shootings and hunt down gun traffickers through ballistics technology.

Prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office and Cook County state’s attorney’s office have been assigned to the force to decide whether suspects in gun crimes should be charged in state or federal court.

Quote:Coulson said the strike force is different than previous “surges” in which ATF agents were sent to Chicago for months-long missions and then went home after a major prosecution was unveiled.

“It’s long term,” he said. “They’re here permanently. It’s not a flash-in-the-pan concept where they come here for a year and leave.”

About 20 ATF officials have joined about 35 to 40 ATF agents who already were working in Chicago.

The strike force was envisioned in November when President Barack Obama was in office, Coulson said.

“We were talking about what we could do differently in Chicago,” he said.

In March, police Supt. Eddie Johnson traveled to Washington and met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who committed to the idea of forming the strike force, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the chief spokesman for the police department.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “was instrumental in getting this moving along,” Guglielmi said, adding that Celinez Nunez, the head of the ATF in Chicago, quickly put the strike force together.

Glad to see Trump acting upon a vision by Obama. That's how the presidency should work - administrations working in tandem and not just wiping the slate clean and starting all over.

Oblunder had eight years to do something positive and it only lasted a year. C'mon, you know that didn't fix any problem. When you stop spraying the pests in your garden regularly they will come back...and that's exactly what happened with Oblunder's idea of leaving after a year.

What, a POTUS that takes action? Upholds law and order? Supports law enforcement? Who'da thunk?!