Is Trump Right About Chicago? We Went To The Most Dangerous Parts To Find Out.
Trump has long targeted Chicago, calling it the “most dangerous city in the world.”
But homicides were down 30% last year, even as Trump cut crime prevention grants.
What’s making crime fall? Investments in community-led violence prevention programs.
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@tomiossi8092
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Enjoyed the piece. Well done. Since you grew up in that area, be great to hear your story.
@shaun8749
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Blk communities CAN’T trust cops bc they’re more likely to 🔫 u than help. If they was trustworthy, everyone would snitch. Ppl are on their own, cops are only useful if they are apart of the community. programs like this should be apart of the police dept, IF the goal is peaceful neighborhoods
@KellyMorrow-s2y
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Blacks need to correct other blacks. Then nobody can cry racism. Until then, they also need to work and contribute to society like everyone else has to, or starve. Americans are so entirely sick of listening to bs excuses that if these poor blacks just had more money they'd behave better. We all know that's a lie. They have to find their soul, correct their victimization mindset and grow a backbone. Black men need to work and take care of their families as well as stop expecting black women to take on the role of the man. Gross. Stop expecting others to take care of them and almost act as parents. It's disgusting.
@sebentyseben77
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
So, basically yes, it is a crime ridden city… Thanks poindexter.
@richards7526
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
People gather were others have the same DNA so things stay the same.
@xgurl10
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
So what do the aldermans of the struggling wards do to help bring awareness and more resources to those communities?
@h3xane283
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
24:14 I’m cold af, cuddle my feathery ass mf before I lay a damn ice cube. Put me inside your jacket like you care. Lettin my bare legs dangle in this freezin ass cold. Actin like us don’t sugar talk me and call me miss fluffybutt who’s my little fluffybutt. But cameras out so u got me strugglin with my feathers all f’d up n disheveled.
@h3xane283
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
People do need trauma therapy, they end community they can socialize in even if they aren’t tall buff men or early reproductive women
@h3xane283
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Dump the egos, children women seniors disabled have the invisible curfew… if residents pay taxes they should get working police and help them, quit listening to the cool young men, don’t go by Deebo’s opinion on incarceration and police.
@bootoxkikka
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
In a perfect world, just imagine if Trump, the Chicago Mayor, and these community help groups were to sit down at the same table. Cut the bull politics and get down to the nitty-gritty? Trump: Mr. Mayor, what can I do to help you help these communities? Mr. Mayor: Send everything you got, and let these groups coordinate the plan with the Federal authorities……I know, too simple. But everything starts with a dream and some baby steps.
@wreckage-vs5jv
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Why are people surprised when the system works exactly as intended
@brenickelle
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Very good job with uncovering some truth about my city! Can you please consider doing a episode of NFP organization A Knock at Midnight 400 W 76th street? They are a huge Resource in the heart of Englewood and Auburn Gresham area. They offer programs like STEM and arts education for youth, job training (including CDL and culinary arts), financial literacy, and family support to prevent foster care placement and promote reunification. AKAM collaborates with schools, churches, and government institutions to build community capacity and improve life skills.
Check them out
@cosmic7234
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Y’all are the exact opposite of that guy (grifter?) who went to Portland and just filmed people fent folding for 30 minutes lmao.
@kcd1969
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
He is right about Chicago. His channel just hates him.
@JDawghasaTruck
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
The problem is multi-faceted. Trying to solve it is kinda like the 5 blind men describing an elephant. It is ultimately a heart problem, when God is respected crime always fades away. Why have businesses moved out? When crime makes it too expensive to operate. When drugs enter the society, society crumbles. Who introduces drugs into society and why? The federal government has a role to play to solve the problems, although handing out “grants” is so easy to corrupt and it creates a dependency. President Johnson’s Great Society may have done more to destroy the black family than anything else. Politicians feed on those dependencies. Don’t demonize Trump, he is only doing what little he can. Back to the beginning, it is a heart problem. Jesus needs to be preached on every street corner, in every neighborhood!
I’m just a 70 year old white guy, I spent 40 years living in Indy navigating several cultures.
@maybeerainmaybeesnow
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
trump only cares about trump.
@DavidFraley-n8v
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
What about all the dead bodies !!!!
@wendymarciano891
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
I’m grateful that this video came across my feed, I love this kind of reporting; done by real people about real issues.
This is so well done, such an important topic and very inspiring.
I truly hope that President Trump finds this video and works directly with the ppl in it. They want change so they are the change. They deserve all the help they can get. ☀️
@user-nl2cg8rf8t
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
we need to restore the family unit and have fathers in the home too
@TexMovers
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
DAMN RIGHT , YOU ALL DOING GREAT, MAY JESUS BLESS YOU ALL . TEX CHAVEZ
@avandurion
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
I live in Chicago and police is as bad as the gangs, and they often work together anyways. Just a bunch of pigs in uniforms.
@ronaldbilar7503
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
So far this year 181 have been shot and 45 killed in SHITCAGO way to go DUMOCRATS. Vote democratic for more of the same B. S.
@williewoods3888
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
It's a Spirit of darkness over Chicago, rules over the City being used by people , but a Change is on the way, Chicago will never be Same
@robinhartley4508
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Obama Even Made It His Business To Destroy City's.
@kasaundratripam7954
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
The is not down. They don't report crimes as is or at all
@larrynotuom3232
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
You don't have jobs because you keep voting in criminal politicians who get rich off your backs.
@domdrty
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Thwre is a direct corrilation with the number of police per capita and the level of crime. Of course there are other vriables like light punishment in Chicago, California, DC, etc.
If the punishment is non-existent criminals will continue because the risk is worth the reward.
I lived in the SF Bay Area on the peninsula. People get caught braking into cars and the cops give them a ticket and release them. It has been shown that these criminals continue to break into cars the same day after release. These are career criminals. Not just, "trying to survive".
@carolynnmarkiewicz6015
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
I live in a suburb in Chicago.
I never go into the city anymore.
I grew up in a suburb that borders Chicago,in 70's.
Never had a second thought of going into city.
Not now
@fluffychikki
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
This kind of journalism is why I’m a monthly donor for More Perfect Union.
@fluffychikki
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Adding more police would merely reduce crime, but not solve the reasons why there is crime in the first place. Crime is a symptom of a system not meeting the needs of its members. Increasing opportunities, justice, and community involvement are some of the ways to actually fix the system.
@robertI931
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
We have to unify from Boston to LA. Let's be about it, not just keep talking about it. Knowledge is power, power is knowledge.
@robertI931
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
I'm 43 from E Cle. I saw the transition. The real question is why the government would want to destroy us, the people and create division? Dirty mofos.
@d.g.990
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Please don't give us PC buullshite answers. It does not help the poor black people in this city. I am from Chicago – it is HEAVILY RACIALLY SEGREGATED. If you deny this you are stinking lying racist scum. The Black neighborhoods are VERY DANGEROUS. Chicago could desegregate but it refuses to because the democratic party wants its Black vote block. Middle class Blacks FLEE Chicago for Atlanta and New York. Chicago is an APARTHEIT city.
@NewUser-z4w6r
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Same excuses decades later. Outlaw gang membership. Habitual offenders get life in prison. Hold parent/s criminally accountable for their children's criminal actions. Legalize drugs for use in camps, you can use as much as you want but you are confined to the camps.
@donald4775
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Just an awful article the same old s*** that they talk about they're the ones that get the problem there's so much money always going to these places and nothing ever happens so you know at least they tried to stop the crime and he always want to blame it on somebody else maybe you should blame it on the Democrats what about all the money for the foreigners they brought in that destroyed your nation what about that money why don't you talk about the real facts
@donald4775
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
How many times how many millions of dollars how many training programs how many we need better schools every year if you have schools and you have a teacher you should be able to learn honestly why is that
@13mercaitis14
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
time to hold all the fake news and the fake politicians all of them be held accountable for their actions Keep going ICE and DOGE and Trump…time to lock all the criminals and their supporters..that includes Mayors and governors….no one's above the law
@spec46971
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
This is nothing new this has been going on forever I grew up in Little Village 26th street Lawndale Gardens projects 25th and California in the 50's 60's and early 70's and this area has always been a problem with gangs and there were plenty of jobs so having jobs available doesn't stop crime when there are no consequences
@DadadaddaaaDaaDaaa-j5q
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
its exhausting having a narcissistic, pathological liar, scam artist as a president. its very much a bad relationship and everyone selling their souls to get a job with him should be very ashamed.
@Thompson8888
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Below, you’ll find a full table with the latest verified numbers from USAfacts. It ranks 15+ states by total murders, population, and per-capita rate, so you can see how each state compares. However, the numbers may vary as on the population.
State
Murders (count)
Rate per 100k
Mississippi
543
19.4
Louisiana
837
19.3
Alabama
717
14.8
New Mexico
290
14.7
Tennessee
777
11.4
Arkansas
325
11.3
South Carolina
565
11.3
Missouri
612
10.4
Maryland
582
10.1
Georgia
1,067
9.9
Illinois
1,171
9.8
Alaska
61
8.5
North Carolina
887
8.5
Nivada
258
8.2
Indiana
523
8.0
@tommymctomerson7972
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
As a conservative, I’m on board with everything this organization is doing. When you rely on your community as a whole to self sustain and fix your own problems, it’s that much less interference from the government needed. I can’t say I’m on board with Brandon Johnson’s policies, but I hope to see more of what this organization is doing to help their communities.
@garyprice9448
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Ask why Citadel pack up and moved ,their employees were getting robbed injured while going too work .the officials are all ways going to say its safe in Chicago, last summer we had a family member shot multiple times, by an immigrant the boy was unarmed ,the story was changed twice the shooter was released the same day no jail time .It depends on who you are if its safe or not .
@HoosierDaddyDetailing
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
Please produce a video on the affects of fatherless homes.
@boataxe4605
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
A side effect from the war on drugs. When you create a black market it becomes violent. We should have learned that lesson from alcohol prohibition.
@John-k2z3x
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
13% of the magicians casting 80% of the spells
@nwj03a
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
I moved to Chicago from the west coast, don’t regret it at all. It’s a huge city, there are going to be problem areas, but I’ve very rarely felt unsafe.
Don’t go looking for a problem and you are unlikely to encounter one.
@Michael-yf9ew
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
You're 10x more likely to be murdered in Birmingham than Chicago.
@clannadgirl46
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
You can blame the democrat Mayor, leaders, Governors!
@SandraForde-o5f
March 1, 2026 at 1:57 am
I live here and YES TRUMP IS 💯 CORRECT!!! THE ROOT CAUSE IS THE PEOPLE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM! HAVING CHILD AFTER CHILD AFTER CHILD WITH NO FATHER PRESENT AND LETTING THE STREETS RAISE THE KIDS! GET RID OF WELFARE, THEY STOP HAVING THE BABIES!
IRRESPONSIBLE
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