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New Executive Orders on Law Enforcement

Quinta Jurecic
Thursday, February 9, 2017, 2:51 PM

President Trump today signed three new executive orders related to law enforcement activity: "Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking," "Preventing Violence Against Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement Officers," and "Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety." Links to the three orders are available below. We will provide analysis shortly.

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President Trump today signed three new executive orders related to law enforcement activity: "Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking," "Preventing Violence Against Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement Officers," and "Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety." Links to the three orders are available below. We will provide analysis shortly.


Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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