Donald Trump has signed three executive orders to deal with ”public safety", including handing more authority to the police.
He insisted that the US faced the ”threat of rising crime" and that ”things will get better very soon".
"I am directing the Department of Justice to reduce crimes and crimes of violence against law enforcement officers," he said.
”It's a shame, what has been happening to our great, our truly great, law enforcement officers. That is going to stop today."
One of the executive orders seeks to ”define new federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing federal crimes, in order to prevent violence" against state and federal police.
No mention was made by Mr Trump of the hundreds of people who die at the hands of law enforcement every year.
His speech comes just one month after the former administration's DoJ concluded that, in Chicago, residents had suffered a ”pattern of excessive force" by police, experienced particularly within communities of colour.
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At the swearing-in ceremony of Mr Sessions on Thursday, Mr Trump added that the three new executive orders, including ordering the Department of Homeland Security to ”break the back of criminal cartels" and asking the Department of Justice to implement a task force to reduce violent crime, were giving a ”clear sign" to criminals.
”Your day is over," he declared. ”A new era of justice begins and it begins right now."
Mr Sessions, a longtime Senator from Alabama who was once deemed too racist to serve as a federal judge, told reporters that the US ”has a crime problem".
”I wish the rise that we're seeing in crime in America today were some sort of aberration or a blip," he said.
”My best judgement, having been involved in criminal law enforcement for many years, is that this is a dangerous, permanent trend that puts the health and safety of America at risk," he added.
Mr Trump's and Mr Sessions's claims of permanent, rising crime have consistently been debunked.
Mr Sessions added that he would fight terrorism and implement a ”lawful system of immigration".
”We need to end this lawlessness that threatens the public safety and pulls down the wages of working Americans," he said.
Mr Sessions was widely reported to be one of the key architects of the Muslim ban, an executive order signed on 27 January....
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ting-us-president-jeff-sessions-a7572001.html
Executive orders can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders
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Executive Order on a Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety
Sec. 2. Task Force.
(c) The Task Force shall:
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Executive Order on Preventing Violence Against Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement Officers
Section 1. Policy.
(a) enforce all Federal laws in order to enhance the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, and thereby all Americans;
(b) develop strategies, in a process led by the Department of Justice (Department) and within the boundaries of the Constitution and existing Federal laws, to further enhance the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers; and
(c) pursue appropriate legislation, consistent with the Constitution's regime of limited and enumerated Federal powers, that will define new Federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing Federal crimes, in order to prevent violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers.
Sec. 2. Implementation.
(a) develop a strategy for the Department's use of existing Federal laws to prosecute individuals who commit or attempt to commit crimes of violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers;
(b) coordinate with State, tribal, and local governments, and with law enforcement agencies at all levels, including other Federal agencies, in prosecuting crimes of violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers in order to advance adequate multi-jurisdiction prosecution efforts;
(c) review existing Federal laws to determine whether those laws are adequate to address the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers;
(d) following that review, and in coordination with other Federal agencies, as appropriate, make recommendations to the President for legislation to address the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, including, if warranted, legislation defining new crimes of violence and establishing new mandatory minimum sentences for existing crimes of violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, as well as for related crimes;
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Executive Order on Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking
Section 1. Purpose
A comprehensive and decisive approach is required to dismantle these organized crime syndicates and restore safety for the American people.
Sec. 2. Policy
(a) strengthen enforcement of Federal law in order to thwart transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including criminal gangs, cartels, racketeering organizations, and other groups engaged in illicit activities that present a threat to public safety and national security
(b) ensure that Federal law enforcement agencies give a high priority and devote sufficient resources to efforts to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including through the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of members of such organizations, the extradition of members of such organizations to face justice in the United States
(d) enhance cooperation with foreign counterparts against transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including, where appropriate and permitted by law, through sharing of intelligence and law enforcement information and through increased security sector assistance to foreign partners by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security;
He insisted that the US faced the ”threat of rising crime" and that ”things will get better very soon".
"I am directing the Department of Justice to reduce crimes and crimes of violence against law enforcement officers," he said.
”It's a shame, what has been happening to our great, our truly great, law enforcement officers. That is going to stop today."
One of the executive orders seeks to ”define new federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing federal crimes, in order to prevent violence" against state and federal police.
No mention was made by Mr Trump of the hundreds of people who die at the hands of law enforcement every year.
His speech comes just one month after the former administration's DoJ concluded that, in Chicago, residents had suffered a ”pattern of excessive force" by police, experienced particularly within communities of colour.
......
At the swearing-in ceremony of Mr Sessions on Thursday, Mr Trump added that the three new executive orders, including ordering the Department of Homeland Security to ”break the back of criminal cartels" and asking the Department of Justice to implement a task force to reduce violent crime, were giving a ”clear sign" to criminals.
”Your day is over," he declared. ”A new era of justice begins and it begins right now."
Mr Sessions, a longtime Senator from Alabama who was once deemed too racist to serve as a federal judge, told reporters that the US ”has a crime problem".
”I wish the rise that we're seeing in crime in America today were some sort of aberration or a blip," he said.
”My best judgement, having been involved in criminal law enforcement for many years, is that this is a dangerous, permanent trend that puts the health and safety of America at risk," he added.
Mr Trump's and Mr Sessions's claims of permanent, rising crime have consistently been debunked.
Mr Sessions added that he would fight terrorism and implement a ”lawful system of immigration".
”We need to end this lawlessness that threatens the public safety and pulls down the wages of working Americans," he said.
Mr Sessions was widely reported to be one of the key architects of the Muslim ban, an executive order signed on 27 January....
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ting-us-president-jeff-sessions-a7572001.html
Executive orders can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders
EO's not fully copy pasted below!
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Executive Order on a Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety
Sec. 2. Task Force.
(c) The Task Force shall:
(i) exchange information and ideas among its members that will be useful in developing strategies to reduce crime, including, in particular, illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and violent crime;
(ii) based on that exchange of information and ideas, develop strategies to reduce crime;
(iii) identify deficiencies in existing laws that have made them less effective in reducing crime and propose new legislation that could be enacted to improve public safety and reduce crime;
(iv) evaluate the availability and adequacy of crime-related data and identify measures that could improve data collection in a manner that will aid in the understanding of crime trends and in the reduction of crime; and
(v) conduct any other studies and develop any other recommendations as directed by the Attorney General.
(e) The Task Force shall submit at least one report to the President within 1 year from the date of this order, and a subsequent report at least once per year thereafter while the Task Force remains in existence.(ii) based on that exchange of information and ideas, develop strategies to reduce crime;
(iii) identify deficiencies in existing laws that have made them less effective in reducing crime and propose new legislation that could be enacted to improve public safety and reduce crime;
(iv) evaluate the availability and adequacy of crime-related data and identify measures that could improve data collection in a manner that will aid in the understanding of crime trends and in the reduction of crime; and
(v) conduct any other studies and develop any other recommendations as directed by the Attorney General.
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Executive Order on Preventing Violence Against Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement Officers
Section 1. Policy.
(a) enforce all Federal laws in order to enhance the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, and thereby all Americans;
(b) develop strategies, in a process led by the Department of Justice (Department) and within the boundaries of the Constitution and existing Federal laws, to further enhance the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers; and
(c) pursue appropriate legislation, consistent with the Constitution's regime of limited and enumerated Federal powers, that will define new Federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing Federal crimes, in order to prevent violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers.
Sec. 2. Implementation.
(a) develop a strategy for the Department's use of existing Federal laws to prosecute individuals who commit or attempt to commit crimes of violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers;
(b) coordinate with State, tribal, and local governments, and with law enforcement agencies at all levels, including other Federal agencies, in prosecuting crimes of violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers in order to advance adequate multi-jurisdiction prosecution efforts;
(c) review existing Federal laws to determine whether those laws are adequate to address the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers;
(d) following that review, and in coordination with other Federal agencies, as appropriate, make recommendations to the President for legislation to address the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, including, if warranted, legislation defining new crimes of violence and establishing new mandatory minimum sentences for existing crimes of violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, as well as for related crimes;
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Executive Order on Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking
Section 1. Purpose
A comprehensive and decisive approach is required to dismantle these organized crime syndicates and restore safety for the American people.
Sec. 2. Policy
(a) strengthen enforcement of Federal law in order to thwart transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including criminal gangs, cartels, racketeering organizations, and other groups engaged in illicit activities that present a threat to public safety and national security
(b) ensure that Federal law enforcement agencies give a high priority and devote sufficient resources to efforts to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including through the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of members of such organizations, the extradition of members of such organizations to face justice in the United States
(d) enhance cooperation with foreign counterparts against transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including, where appropriate and permitted by law, through sharing of intelligence and law enforcement information and through increased security sector assistance to foreign partners by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security;
