Law & order

Law enforcement to President Trump: How to keep America safe

A central tenet of President Trump’s campaign was restoring “law and order” to our country. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pledged to do the same. Last week, the president spoke to law enforcement and signed three executive orders to reduce crime.

We are grateful the president has expressed strong support for our work. As he considers how to put his public safety agenda into action, we urge him to listen to the people who know this work best: law enforcement leaders. Together, my co-chair former Dallas police chief David Brown and I have 67 years of on-the-job police experience. Now, we lead an organization of 200 police chiefs and district attorneys from all 50 states with vast knowledge of how to eradicate violence from our streets.

Here are five ideas informed by our experience as law enforcement we hope the new administration will incorporate into its anti-crime agenda...