Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked federal law enforcement for help in combating violence and drugs in two areas of Chicago that the city says have seen the highest increase in crime this year.

Chicago police officers will coordinate with U.S. marshals and FBI, DEA and ATF agents to go after what the mayor called “high-crime areas and high-target individuals” in the Grand Crossing and Ogden police districts on the South Side.

The plan is modeled after a crackdown approach that involves saturating so-called conflict zones with gang, narcotics and patrol officers in the Englewood District on the South Side and the Harrison District on the West Side.

Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said that approach has reduced homicides in those two areas. “I’m pleased that we are going to get that type of support, and the strategy is working,” Emanuel said at a news conference.

McCarthy said he expects similar results with both “immediate and long-term achievements” in Grand Crossing and Ogden. Although McCarthy said the plan is not a “short-term strategy, ” the federal assistance only lasts four months. The help comes in the form of additional agents to target guns, gangs and drugs.

“We’re working on the worst of the worst... the people who are most likely to be involved in homicide, whether they are the offender or a victim of homicide,” McCarthy said.

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Editor's Note: We guess Mr. Emanuel is finding it a bit harder to actually serve as a chief executive than to sit in a White House office dictating ideological edict and manipulating governmental process...


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