In a effort to steal ‘the Media/Political thunder’ and reason’s for Trump/Miller’s throwing Federal Agents at a Red State city?
Both Governor’s Newsom and Moore have annouced their own crime crackdown ‘surges’….
Neither Governor’s are’Asking Trump’ for National Guard assistance,….
The Democratic states ARE signaling they’d gladly accept FBI, DEA and MORE Federal FUNDS to help they pay for their crime fighting efforts…..
Maybe some of those BILLIONS Congress gave to ICE and Customs?
With President Donald Trump’s threat to send National Guard troops into Baltimore in the air, Maryland leaders said Friday that they will pour more of their own resources to further bring down crime in the state’s largest city.
The open-ended increase in public safety efforts, announced by Gov. Wes Moore (D) and Mayor Brandon Scott (D), builds on an existing partnership that has already funneled cash to violence-interrupter groups and state prosecutors, an effort that the two men credit with helping drive Baltimore’s homicide count to its lowest in 50 years.
“We can do this ourselves,” Scott said Friday evening at a joint news conference with the governor outside St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. “We do not need an occupation. We do not need troops on our streets.”
He called the city’s population “a resource to be invested in, not a problem to be solved.”
Trump has characterized Baltimore as a “hellhole” and pointed to the city, along with Chicago and New Orleans, as a place he may want to replicate his intervention in D.C., where he declared a “crime emergency” Aug. 11 and sent nearly 2,200 National Guard troops alongside a surge of federal law enforcement agents.
Even as Trump this week softened his language about activating the Guard over the objections of local officials elsewhere, the president continued to stress the need for crime reduction in Baltimore…
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Scott and Moore have refused to endorse using the Guard and conferred with state Attorney General Anthony G. Brown (D) on a legal game plan to stop it should Trump do it anyway. Meanwhile, they have publicly welcomed more agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as enhanced federal funding for local police, suggesting that the president support a federal ban of ghost guns and devices that give some guns rapid-fire capability.
“I have a whole list of federal resources that I would love for the president of the United States to be able to authorize,” Moore said this week during a public appearance at the National Press Club in D.C.
But calling up the Maryland National Guard is not one of them….
Well,this is well and good…
However, by taking these actions they are ,in effect, conceding Trumps point and reacting to it.
Crime IS a issue Everywhere….
Cities HAVE to Balance their budgets…..
They have to make choices…..
Trump has no such constraints ….
“His’ Congress has given him BILLIONS because they have ‘Monopoly Money’….
If you read closely?
Cities and States ARE Open to Federal agencies like the FBI, DEA etc send people to work WITH them on crime…..
Califonia and Baltimore are SMART in working to take away Trump’s ‘BS Reason’s to set them up….
The Mayor of DC also is going that route….
No Guard….
No having the ‘Troop’s’ hanging out….