President Trump announces Operation Legend, an effort to deal with the massive crime wave hitting America's cities.

President Donald Trump.

President Trump has announced Operation Legend in an effort to deal with the massive crime wave hitting America's cities. Politico. The operation was named after LeGend Taliferro, a 4 year old who was shot and killed in Kansas City. It will involve hundreds of officers from federal law enforcement including FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals and DHS. 200 officers have already been sent to Kansas City and a similar number will be deployed to Chicago. 35 more officers will be sent to Albuquerque. Unlike federal actions in Portland, these officers will be going after murders and gang violence. Reactions are mixed from Democratic mayors who have been critical of actions against rioters in Portland but are optimistic that this deployment could help solve crimes. 

My Comment:

This move is overdue, it's been clear for awhile now that crime has been increasing in our inner cities and that the Democrats that run these area have little interest in stopping the deaths. Indeed, I blame this wave of violence is due almost exclusively due to the Democrats actions. 

The Ferguson Effect is a well documented effect of high profile shooting cases involving police. The bad press these events cause police to be reluctant to pursue charges against criminals. It happened in Ferguson itself and it happened in Baltimore. And now with national riots it will happen everywhere. Why on earth would cops take any chances if they know that they can be charged with murder for defending themselves, just like in the Rayshard Brooks case?

This has led to a massive wave in violence even if you ignore the problems the riots and protests have caused. Formally safe cites like New York City have had a major spike in murders while places like Chicago have somehow even gotten worse. 

The mayors of these cities have no interest in solving these crimes. Indeed, they seem determined to make things worse. They are handcuffing the cops and preventing them from going after violent criminals and are letting the lunatics run the asylum. They are even planning to defund the police which is the worst possible solution to not only the murder rate but to the problem of police violence as well.

It would be unconscionable for President Trump to not respond in some way and I think this is probably the best he can do. If it were up to me all these Democrat mayors would be in a prison cell for the rest of their lives but that's not politically possible. 

Sending more federal agents is probably the best he can do. They can help what's left of the local and state police agencies and they can solve crimes as well. This will greatly improve the clearance rate of murders and they can also work to break up the various gangs. That will probably help solve some crimes and eventually it will lower the crime rate. 

As for Portland, I totally support the federal efforts there. I am totally baffled by the people saying that the federal cops there are acting like tyrants. Arresting criminals is their primary function and given the rioters have been attacking federal buildings their actions are obviously justified. If these cops were acting like tyrants they wouldn't be arresting or even releasing people, they would be giving them one way helicopter rides...