WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has not floated the possibility of sending troops into Arizona, but the violent crime rate in Phoenix is higher than the rate in Chicago, the next city on the president’s list.

The rate of violent crime per capita in Phoenix is high enough to rank 51st among cities of 100,000 or more. Chicago ranks 108th. Washington, D.C., is 34th.

Since Aug. 11, Trump has deployed about 2,200 National Guard troops to patrol in the nation’s capital. Chicago is next.

“We’re going in,” he said Tuesday in the Oval Office. “Chicago is a hellhole right now. Baltimore is a hellhole right now. … I have an obligation.”

Baltimore ranks fourth among midsize and large U.S. cities, with 1,600 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, though the number of such crimes dropped 5% last

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