For many in our polarized nation, acknowledging anything offered by this president as “useful” is akin to selling one’s soul to Satan himself. But on Monday, President Trump acknowledged what innumerable law enforcement professionals understand to be an irrefutable truism. Trump described the relentlessly violent “crime spree” in Chicago and called for an immediate reinstatement of the policing methodology “Stop, Question, and Frisk.” This bold action would save countless lives in the warzone that currently masquerades as a polite American city.

Trump made the pronouncement in front of a sympathetic audience of senior police officials at the annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, held in Orlando, Fla. Certainly missed in his call for a wholesale return of the policy in Chicago was his caveat that his support was contingent on the methodology being “properly applied.”