Trump aims to strengthen police protection: NPR

President Donald Trump speaks on crime and safety during an August 20, 2024 campaign at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Michigan (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). Evan Vucci/ap Closed subtitles

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President Trump has signed two promisesUnleash high-influence local police forces"intensify Law enforcement pressure on "criminal foreigners".“Although these orders are separate, they have a White House vision for local police to rejuvenate in close collaboration with federal law enforcement.

Orders to make policing appeals to federal agencies, provide state and local police with “new best practices”, improve police training and salaries, and improve tracking and reporting of crime statistics, as well as popular measures in law enforcement.

The order did not specify how these goals were achieved, but Peter Moskos, a former policeman and now a professor at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, said the first part of the executive order was positive.

"These are really something the federal government can do to make the community safer," Moscos said. Back from the edge, New York's oral history of criminal history declined in the 1990s.

But he doesn't like the rest of the order. A section titled “Responsible for holding states and local officials” calls on the Attorney General to take “legal remedies” against state and local officials to implement “discrimination or civil rights violations” related to the DEI initiative, as well as “obstructions” from law enforcement officers who perform their duties.

"As a total package, this is worrying as the Fed tries to control excessive coverage of local policing," Moscos said.

The threat of action to the “block” was signed with the signing of a second executive order on Monday, which told the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to present a list of states and cities they believe are obstructing federal immigration enforcement.

This is the latest step for the government to target what it calls “sanctuary” jurisdiction. Previously, local jurisdictions that did not cooperate with immigration and customs enforcement were threatened with funding cuts. Now, the White House said it could also take "legal remedies" to violate federal law.

"It's simple: comply with the law, respect the law, and not hinder federal immigration officials and law enforcement when they are just trying to eliminate public safety threats," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday.

On Friday, FBI arrests Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan Allegedly trying to help a person avoid being arrested by ice in Milwaukee County Court.

"You will be prosecuted when you cross that obstacle (SIC) or deliberately hide from the ice of illegal aliens," White House border Tsar Czar Tom Homan said in the same press conference. "Judgement is not done."

Through these executive orders, local law enforcement officers may doubt whether they may also face such prosecution.

"I never advised anyone to interfere with what the federal government is going to do," said Sheriff Paul Heroux of Bristol County, Massachusetts. But he said state law does not allow him to accommodate ice to carry people out of jail, but he believes the White House executive order does not change that.

"I don't know how the target positions can be moved by executive orders," said Heruks. He noted that there is already a federal law called 287(g), setting a plan for local departments, choose Help ice. "I don't think executive orders can replace U.S. law. I think that's how it works," he said.

The executive order that promises to “release” the police also promises to individual officials “injustly assume the expenses and liabilities of liability” to provide legal assistance to the performing officials. The order said the system will be created by the Attorney General and should include "Private Sector Pro Bono Help", which may be the right way Law firms promised pro-science work, which have recently been under pressure from the government.

The order also calls on the Attorney General to review all ongoing federal consent ordinances and other binding legal arrangements with the police department in a bid to end those “unhindered enforcement of law enforcement functions.”

The consent order was once the favorite method of the Justice Department in the Obama era, requiring reforms to the troubled police department, but during the first Trump administration, the strategy was abandoned and returned under Biden's leadership, and even some reformers admitted that Consent orders usually cost too much local police.

Now, in the second Trump administration, The Ministry of Justice has a group of lawyers leaving Egyptmaking it unlikely that the Justice Department will launch a new investigation and a consent ordinance against law enforcement.

“Overall, it is incredibly worrying,” said Juan Cuba, executive director of the Sheriff’s Responsibility Operation. “When you put all these things together, try to force the sheriff and local police to make an agreement with the ICE and then say ‘If you are prosecuted (we will defend you),’ that’s just encouraging more bad actors.”