Racist AG Jeff Sessions Calls Rise In Crime A 'Dangerous Permanent Trend' (It's Not)…

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edited February 2017 in For The Grown & Sexy
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeff-sessions-claims-rise-in-crime-rates-dangerous-permanent-trend
Newly sworn-in Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that he thinks a rise in crime is a "dangerous permanent trend," contradicting FBI data that indicates an overall downward trend.

"We have a crime problem," Sessions said, speaking from the Oval Office after being sworn in as President Donald Trump's attorney general. "I wish the rise that we are seeing in crime in America today were some sort of aberration or a blip."

Instead, Sessions said that he judged it to be a "dangerous permanent trend" and that "there are a lot of things" that need to be done at the Justice Department, per the pool report.

The number of violent crimes in the United States rose nearly 4 percent in 2015 compared to the year before, according to the FBI's annual data report released in 2016. The total was still lower than levels in 2011 and 2006, however, indicating an overall longterm decrease in crime rates.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-signs-executive-orders-justice-department

The second order, he said, would direct the Department of Justice “to form a task force on reducing violent crime in America.” Later he described it as a “task force on crime reduction and public safety.”

Finally, Trump said, he would direct the Department of Justice “to implement a plan to stop crime and crimes of violence against law enforcement officers.”

“It's a shame what's been happening to our great, truly great, law enforcement officers. That's going to stop as of today,” he said, reading later while signing the order: “Preventing violence against federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officials.”

Copies of the executive orders had not been made available to the press as of Trump’s signing them. The Department of Justice referred TPM to the White House for more details on the orders. The White House was not immediately available for comment.

“Today's ceremony should be seen as a clear message to the gang members and drug dealers terrorizing innocent people, your day is over. A new era of justice begins, and it begins right now,” Trump said at the end of his prepared remarks, before he signed the orders.

The Nixonian Law & Order facism has begun...

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