“What The Hell Is Going On In Chicago” And Other Highlights From Trump’s Speech To FBI Grads
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Dec 15, 2017
With the feud between the White House and FBI growing bigger by the day, you know…in light of FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s efforts to collude with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to institute an “insurance policy” intended to make sure Trump would never win in 2016, no one had any idea what to expect when Trump took the stage earlier this morning to address graduates of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA.
As it turns out, Trump had nothing but praise for the FBI grads but he did re-launch his full-frontal assault on Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago’s surging violent crime problem, asking “what the hell is going on in Chicago?”
As a quick reminder, courtesy of stats from HeyJackAss!, here’s a quick recap of “what the hell is going on in Chicago.” In aggregate, 3,451 people have been shot so far in 2017, or roughly 1 person every 2.4 hours, and 651 have died from there injuries. Per the chart below, the violent crime is a persistent cloud over the city of Chicago with shootings and murders happening on a daily occurrence.
Meanwhile, the following long-term chart puts the surging violence of the past two years in perspective as homicide rates suddenly surged to levels not seen since the mid-90s, when gang violence was at its peak all around the country.
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