President Donald Trump has signed two new executive orders targeting crime, he says. But critics say they will raise more questions than answers.
One order threatens to strip federal funding from states that use cashless bail, even though bail is decided locally and experts question whether the White House has that authority.
The second order goes further, deepening Trump’s “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., by expanding federal and even military involvement in local policing. That includes deputizing the National Guard, hiring more federal prosecutors, and allowing the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Transportation to investigate city housing and transit systems.
What’s missing is clear evidence that these measures reduce crime, or funding to implement them. What’s at stake is the balance between public safety and federal overreach, and whether this is policy or more politics that we’re seeing.
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