Liberals Are Furious After Black Chicago Police Chief Begs Trump For Help With Huge Crime Rate Liberals were furious when Donald Trump tweeted, Chicago murder rate is record setting4,331 shooting victims with 726 murders in 2016. If Mayor cant do it he must ask for Federal help! Of course, liberal news networks immediately labeled Trump as a racist for his commentsthat is until the Chicago Police Board Chairwoman stood behind Trumps comments. Chairwoman Lori Lightfoot admitted that if Chicago wants to improve their crime rates, they will need Trumps help. We need to have more federal gun prosecutions in Chicago, she commented. Our federal partners from the U.S. attorneys office, the ATF, the FBI need to be much more invested in this overall strategy. Chicago Police Department cannot tackle this issue by itself. Lightfoot then commented on the flaws in the re-entry system. This is not a problem that were going to arrest our way out of, she added. Were dealing with a huge re-entry problemliterally thousands of people coming back from the Illinois Department of Corrections to the same communities that they left, and those communities just dont have the resources right now to absorb that huge influx of re-entry. Though Trump has been unpopular in his claims that we need to target criminals, not guns. That sentiment was also argued by Lightfoot. So weve got to tackle the problem. Its not sexy. Its not popular, but if were going to really get at the root causes of a lot of this gun violence, weve got to deal with these issues as well, she concluded. In Chicago, we are in a state of crisis. We need all hands on deck. What do you think? Is Trump the right person to help turn Chicagos crime rates around? 