In a final report on the operation in December 2020, the Department of Justice said that over 6,000 arrests were made — approximately 467 for homicides — while 2,600 guns were seized. According to the DOJ, in Detroit, 64 people were charged with firearms offenses (which can carry up to 10 years in prison) as a result of the operation; 55 were charged in Cleveland; 64 in Indianapolis; and 34 in Milwaukee.
Some of those numbers have been contested, especially after former Attorney General William P. Barr misrepresented how many arrests were made in Kansas City in the weeks after the operation launched, claiming that the FBI made 200 arrests in the city just two weeks after it began. In reality, there had only been one federal arrest up to that point.
The federal invasion of Portland under Trump was also a nightmare.
Bonus: The guy in charge, Chad Wolf, hadn’t been confirmed by the Senate and as a result had no authority so the entire action was illegal.
What happened when orange Julius said all these things then didn’t get jack done in his first disastrous term?
