{"id":189138,"date":"2025-08-31T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189138\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:53:19","slug":"15-times-higher-karoline-leavitt-compares-chicago-murder-rate-to-delhi-islamabad-slams-governer-for-new-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189138\/","title":{"rendered":"’15 times higher’: Karoline Leavitt compares Chicago murder rate to Delhi, Islamabad; slams governer for new executive order"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'15White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (AP) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday compared Chicago\u2019s murder rate to those of Islamabad and New Delhi while defending President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s new executive order authorising federal intervention in the city.\u201cWe\u2019ve been seeing the governor of Illinois parading out there and saying that there\u2019s nothing wrong with Chicago… He doesn\u2019t need President Trump\u2019s help,\u201d Leavitt said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

‘JB Pritzker’s Legacy’: Leavitt Compares Chicago With Delhi As Trump Mulls Sending National Guard<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been less than a day since the tragedy happened, and we have federal law enforcement on the ground assisting local law enforcement\u2026 As for Chicago and cracking down on crime\u2026 we have seen the Governor of Illinois parading out there saying that there\u2019s nothing wrong with Chicago\u2026 the residents of Chicago beg to differ and the statistics beg to differ,\u201d said Leavitt in a press conference.Leavitt stressed that Chicago\u2019s violence problem is long-running. \u201cFor 13 consecutive years, Chicago has had the most murders of any US city. That is unacceptable,\u201d she said, noting that the city\u2019s arrest rate stood at just 16 percent of nearly 148,000 reported crimes this year.\u201cJust last year, Chicago’s murder rate per capita was … more than double the murder rate in Islamabad and nearly 15 times more than Delhi,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Clash with Chicago leadership<\/p>\n

Leavitt\u2019s remarks came days after Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order instructing city agencies and police not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement operations. The directive bars local police from assisting federal authorities in civil immigration enforcement, patrols, traffic stops, checkpoints, or arrests.Trump escalated the feud in a Truth Social post, branding Johnson \u201cincompetent\u201d while pointing to Washington, DC\u2019s crime record.\u201cThe incompetent Mayor of Chicago just stated that, in DC, where crime has been brought down to almost nothing, there have been no murders in 9 days, something which hasn\u2019t happened in years, and people are safe again, only nine people have been arrested. That is wrong, hundreds of criminals have been held, captured, and arrested, and their guns have been taken away. DC IS SAFE AND BOOMING!!!\u201d he wrote.Vice President JD Vance also backed the administration\u2019s stance during a trip to Wisconsin. \u201cChicago has had a lot of crime problems. Why is it that you have mayors and governors who are angrier about Donald Trump offering to help them than they are about the fact that their own residents are being carjacked and murdered in the streets?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (AP) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday compared Chicago\u2019s murder…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":189139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,105819,105821,69,101693,5386,1818,24099,8133,79403,105820],"class_list":{"0":"post-189138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-murder-rate","10":"tag-crime-statistics-chicago","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-federal-intervention","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-immigration-enforcement","16":"tag-karoline-leavitt","17":"tag-trump-executive-order","18":"tag-violence-in-chicago"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115122772637293472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}