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Trump Signs Executive Order, Gives Police Greater Authority
Local Editor
Donald Trump signed three executive orders to deal with "public safety", including handing more authority to the police.
At the formal ceremony to appoint Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Trump outlined the new mandate that Sessions would have, including tackling crime, drug cartels and terrorism.
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.
In 2016, a total of 135 police officers were killed in the US, a five-year high, according to a report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Around half of them - 64 officers - were fatally shot while on the job, including 21 who were killed in an ambush-style attack.
The number also includes traffic accidents and job-related health issues, for example, heart attacks while working.
No mention was made by Trump of the hundreds of people who die at the hands of law enforcement every year.
There were 968 deaths last year, according to The Washington Post, and more than 130 people so far in 2017, according to a database called killedbypolice.net
The executive orders were signed during Black History Month.
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 color.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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