JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MINORITIES/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [10-8-18] said he has directed the Justice Department to work with law enforcement in Chicago to ‘straighten out the terrible shooting wave’ in the city…The president also suggested that civic leaders in Chicago actually might not want to curb the violence in Chicago, but that his administration would be there to help anyways…As a remedy for Chicago’s well-documented struggles with gun violence, Trump prescribed stop-and-frisk policing, a controversial practice that has been criticized by some as opening the door for racial profiling by law enforcement officers. Supporters of stop-and-frisk have credited it with reducing crime rates in cities where it has been implemented, most prominently in New York. Trump said stop-and-frisk ‘works, and it was meant for problems like Chicago.’ He cautioned that the practice has ‘got to be properly applied,’ although he did not further outline its correct application. Trump also said he has ordered the Justice Department to work with Chicago to change the ‘terrible deal’ the city has with the American Civil Liberties Union. Under the terms of that agreement, which the president said ‘ties law enforcement’s hands,’ groups including the ACLU, Black Lives Matter Chicago and the NAACP can offer input for reforms for the city’s police department.”
–Isabel Dobrin, “Trump instructs DOJ to work with Chicago on crime,” Politico, October 8, 2018 4:18 pm