Supaflyrobby, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons President Trump has federalized the police in Washington, D.C. and deployed the National Guard, which has dramatically reduced crime. In Memphis, the mayor has requested similar assistance, and the home city of Elvis Presley will be the next to see federal deployments to combat high crime. Chicago, however, faces one of the worst murder rates in the developed world. A city of 2.7 million, it recorded 8,227 violent crimes through July 2025, including 3,361 aggravated assaults and batteries, 865 shootings, and 288 homicides as of September 7. That homicide rate is about nine times higher than London’s, three times higher than Berlin’s, seven times higher than Paris’s, and five times higher than Canada’s national rate. Yet…
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