Chicago is bleeding from crime, and its mayor can’t bring himself to answer the simplest of questions: would putting more police officers on the streets make the city safer?
That was the scene on MSNBC this week when Joe Scarborough pressed Mayor Brandon Johnson over and over again on the most basic premise of law and order. Instead of answering “yes” or “no,” Johnson wove through talking points about affordable housing, social programs, and youth employment. Scarborough—hardly a right-wing inquisitor—cut him off more than once to remind him he hadn’t actually answered the question.
“Would an additional 5,000 cops on the streets in Chicago help complement those programs to make Chicago safer?” Scarborough asked, putting the issue in terms so plain even a career politician couldn’t dodge it. Johnson still dodged, offering instead what he called a “full package”: housing, health care, and jobs—plus policing, but never in the lead.
Holy crap, Joe Scarborough just eviscerated Chicago’s mayor by asking him five times a simple question: would more police help with Chicago’s crime. He can’t answer! What world are we living in when MSNBC hosts are asking actual questions of Democrats?! pic.twitter.com/03vJzd8wQP
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 26, 2025
What Johnson cannot seem to say outright is what ordinary Chicagoans already know: the city is dangerous, and more cops on the street would help. Period. Crime victims don’t cry out for affordable housing while being mugged on the subway. They don’t demand “equitable workforce opportunities” when bullets fly down their block. They want safety, which comes first and foremost from visible, empowered law enforcement.
President Trump, for his part, has no hesitation on the matter. After federalizing D.C.’s police and deploying National Guard units to stabilize the capital, he made it clear Chicago is next on his list. “The people of Chicago are screaming for help,” Trump said, blasting Johnson as “grossly incompetent” and warning that his administration will not sit idly by while crime runs rampant.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker leapt to Johnson’s defense, accusing Trump of manufacturing a crisis. But the “crisis” is not manufactured—it is lived daily by Chicago residents who watch carjackings, robberies, and shootings spiral. Pretending otherwise is the true violation of the public trust.
And Johnson’s claim that Trump’s plan to send in the National Guard would be a “flagrant violation of our Constitution” is telling. The same politicians who demand federal supremacy in everything from abortion laws to environmental regulations suddenly discover states’ rights the moment Washington tries to enforce law and order.
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