C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
‘The US Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children under the Trump administration, which limits their ability to carry out this work.
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The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child sexual exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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Anti-trafficking advocates across the political spectrum praised many aspects of the first Trump administration’s work on these issues. Since his re-election, however, Trump and his appointees have shifted course. This had drawn bipartisan criticism, particularly over the refusal to release the full investigative files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child sex trafficker and former friend of Trump.
“Many law enforcement officers felt like this administration would be pro-law enforcement, and that trafficking investigations would be seen as important,” said a prosecutor. “This [situation] is disheartening.”’
www.theguardian.com
“Many law enforcement officers felt like this administration would be pro-law enforcement”
Clearly many law enforcement officers were foolish to believe the Trump regime would be pro-law enforcement.
We already knew Trump had contempt for law enforcement when he set free the J6 treasonous insurrectionists who attacked and killed law enforcement officers.
And we knew the Trump regime couldn’t care less about children subject to sex crimes, given Trump’s opposition to releasing the Epstein files.
[…]
The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child sexual exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
[…]
Anti-trafficking advocates across the political spectrum praised many aspects of the first Trump administration’s work on these issues. Since his re-election, however, Trump and his appointees have shifted course. This had drawn bipartisan criticism, particularly over the refusal to release the full investigative files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child sex trafficker and former friend of Trump.
“Many law enforcement officers felt like this administration would be pro-law enforcement, and that trafficking investigations would be seen as important,” said a prosecutor. “This [situation] is disheartening.”’
‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking
Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice
www.theguardian.com
“Many law enforcement officers felt like this administration would be pro-law enforcement”
Clearly many law enforcement officers were foolish to believe the Trump regime would be pro-law enforcement.
We already knew Trump had contempt for law enforcement when he set free the J6 treasonous insurrectionists who attacked and killed law enforcement officers.
And we knew the Trump regime couldn’t care less about children subject to sex crimes, given Trump’s opposition to releasing the Epstein files.
