President Donald Trump will dispatch Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Chicago and recommend the city institute stop and frisk policing, he announced Monday in an Orlando Florida speech.
“I have directed the attorney general’s office to immediately go to the great city of Chicago to help straighten out the terrible shooting wave, want to straighten it out fast, there’s no reason for what’s going on there,” Trump declared, adding “I’ve told them to work with local authorities to try to change the terrible deal the city of Chicago entered into with ACLU which is law enforcement’s hands and to strongly consider stop and frisk.”
“It works, and it was meant for problems like Chicago. It was meant for it. Stop and frisk,” Trump continued. The president has long been a fan of stop and frisk even calling for a nationwide adoption of the policy during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Stop and frisk entails allowing law enforcement officers to stop pedestrians and search them for weapons or other contraband.
“I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago, I think stop-and-frisk. In New York City it was so incredible, the way it worked. Now, we had a very good mayor, but New York City was incredible, the way that worked, so I think that could be one step you could do,” Trump said of the policing practice in September 2016.