Executive orders from Trump aim to strengthen police
US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders that promise to “unleash high-impact police forces,” as well as to increase pressure from law enforcement on “criminal aliens.” These separate orders are part of the White House’s goal of empowering local police who work closely with federal law enforcement, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The order on policing calls on federal agencies to offer “the “best new practices” to state and local police, improve training and pay for officers, and improve the tracking and reporting of crime statistics, though they do not specify how these goals will be reached.
“These are indeed things the federal government can do to make communities safer,” Peter Moskos, a former police officer and now professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who wrote Back From The Brink, on the decline in crime in New York in the 1990s.
He is less enthusiastic about other parts of the executive orders however. “Holding State and Local Officials Accountable,” he says, is calling on the attorney general to pursue “legal remedies” against state and local officials for “discrimination or civil-rights violations.”
“As a total package, it’s worrisome, because of the excessive reach of the Feds trying to control local policing,” he says.
Threatening legal action over “obstructions” coincides with another order that tells the calls on the attorney general and secretary of homeland security to compile a list of states and cities that they consider to be obstructing federal immigration enforcement.
“It’s quite simple: obey the law, respect the law, and don’t obstruct federal immigration officials and law enforcement officials when they are simply trying to remove public safety threats,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
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