President Trump on Tuesday said it’s only a matter of time before National Guard troops are deployed to Chicago to help tackle crime in the Windy City, highlighting shootings that killed 8 and wounded 50 over the Labor Day weekend.
Trump’s threats and orders are testing the boundaries of federal power in America’s major cities, while spurring a debate over which cities and states are facing the biggest crime problems. Many local Democratic elected officials have said crime is decreasing, while Trump and other federal officials have accused them of falsifying crime data.
Here are the 10 cities with the highest murder rate per 100,000.
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