WASHINGTON — President Trump will signal a sweeping “law and order” government order Monday to overtake insurance policies that he says hamstring police and forestall the mass-deportation of unlawful immigrants, The Submit has discovered
The bucket of seven main reforms, outlined in an administration doc, embody instructing the Justice Division to “create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification for officers facing unjust expenses from official duties, including pro bono assistance.”
The order additionally seeks to “increase surplus military assets for local law enforcement” — which Democratic administrations have curtailed — and requires the authorities to “pursue legal action against state or local officials obstructing criminal or immigration law enforcement,” in an obvious initiative in opposition to “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
The chief order moreover requires a assessment of “federal consent decrees, out-of-court agreements, and post-judgement orders that hinder law enforcement, and make modifications as needed” — which might have a serious influence on cities throughout the nation the place police had been discovered to have engaged in a sample of racial discrimination.
Different reforms envisioned within the doc embody guaranteeing that racial discrimination probes deal with “direct evidence, not statistical disparities,” and broadly ordering extra federal assets to help law enforcement officials and focusing federal prosecutions on “violent crimes, drug trafficking, and recidivists with illegal firearms.”
