Washington – Decrying violence against police, President Donald Trump honored the “brave souls” of law enforcement on Monday and vowed his administration would look for ways to reduce violence against police.
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Trump addressed law enforcement and family members of the fallen at the 36th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service outside the U.S. Capitol, reaffirming his campaign promises to restore justice and end attacks on police.
“Every drop of blood spilled from our heroes in blue is a wound inflicted upon the whole country,” Trump said. “And every heartache known by your families in law enforcement is a sorrow shared by the entire family of the American nation.”
Trump was joined by families of law enforcement earlier in the day in the Oval Office, where he signed a proclamation and said he would enlist the Justice Department to develop strategies to prevent and prosecute violent crimes against law enforcement. He said that 118 law enforcement officers had died in the line of duty in 2016.
Trump told police officers with him in the Oval Office that “some of you have suffered greatly and we’re going to take care of it.”
The president, who departs for his first overseas trip as president later this week, said it was his duty as president to keep America “safe from crimes, safe from terrorism and safe from all enemies — foreign and domestic.”
He said that at the center of that duty is the “requirement to ensure law enforcement personnel are given tools and resources they need to do their jobs and come home to their families safely.”
Trump noted the ambush killings of police officers last year in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was joined in the Oval Office by family members of slain officers from Phoenix, Arizona, New Jersey and New York.
Trump spoke nearly week after he fired FBI Director James Comey. His administration is considering Comey’s replacement, a decision that could come before he departs Friday for Saudi Arabia.
I applaud this proclamation. I would like to see this coupled with another measure to restore integrity to police officers. Recognizing that even among the best and bravest, there are rotten apples. It needs to be specifically permitted by law to record police officers. There are hundreds of false arrests every year of officers catching their activities being recorded, and they attack innocent people with dozens of fabricated charges. This scourge needs to be stopped. I respect law enforcement, but there need to be additional steps taken to protect the innocent citizens.
we need to expand stop and frisk, since most criminals in inner cities are people of color targeting other people of color, those that oppose expanding stop and frisk are racists who believe blacks and Latinos lives don’t matter. We need to dramatically expand stop and frisk and ban guns in neighborhoods (regardless of racial makeup) that have large numbers of shootings. I unlike liberals care for the lives of inner city residents.
Violent crime of all sorts, and violent crime against policemen are at the lowest level in my lifetime. Nonetheless, let’s all panic about it.
To #4 -Where do your facts come from, as you live in Saudi Arabia? Are you referring to crime stats in the USA, or Saudi Arabia, where you live? Kindly clarify.
To #2 - Stop and frisk was limited, as the FBI and the NYPD, never produced a shred of evidence, which showed a definitive correlation in lower crime rates, and stop and frisk. Incidentally, I guarantee you that your opinion of stop and frisk would be the opposite, if the NYPD targeted Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, with stop and frisk!