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Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community

One of the fundamental rights of every American is to live in a safe community. A Trump Administration will empower our law enforcement officers to do their jobs and keep our streets free of crime and violence. The Trump Administration will be a law and order administration. President Trump will honor our men and women in uniform and will support their mission of protecting the public. The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump Administration will end it.

The Trump Administration is committed to reducing violent crime. In 2015, homicides increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent. There were thousands of shootings in Chicago last year alone.

Our country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing.

Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter. Our job is to make life more comfortable for parents who want their kids to be able to walk the streets safely. Or the senior citizen waiting for a bus. Or the young child walking home from school.

Supporting law enforcement means supporting our citizens’ ability to protect themselves. We will uphold Americans’ Second Amendment rights at every level of our judicial system.

President Trump is committed to building a border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. He is dedicated to enforcing our border laws, ending sanctuary cities, and stemming the tide of lawlessness associated with illegal immigration.

Supporting law enforcement also means deporting illegal aliens with violent criminal records who have remained within our borders.

It is the first duty of government to keep the innocent safe, and President Donald Trump will fight for the safety of every American, and especially those Americans who have not known safe neighborhoods for a very long time.

bogarde73 wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 5:59am:



Is there anything that Trump will ever do that makes sense? Does he really think that 'empowering' police is the current problem with law enforcement?

The man is an ignorant clown.

longweekend58 wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 7:34am:





The problem with this argument has been from the start it's seen to be an either/or argument.

You can be for the police but actually against police brutality.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 8:42am:


True, but Trump is all for the former and a bit ho-hum on the latter.  On such a super-sensitive and emotive topic, the message needs to be clever and calibrated, but as usual, it is just bluster.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 9:46am:



the 'suspects' should treat cops with respect.

I always have and I have never had any problems with any police.

longweekend58 wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 3:11pm:




Even happened in the UK where the UK police tasered the racial harmony advisement officer.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 3:15pm:


Yeah, that was a good one and sadly, not unprecedented. A BMW-owning black woman was pulled over and had her car impounded because it was suspected stolen, not because it had been reported as such, but that a woman like her MUST have stolen it.  She was on one of Obamas favourite race committees. I am guess the cops got a very forceful phone call from big guys with bigger guns.