Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that public safety was the “birthright” of every American citizen, while contrasting the administration’s record in supporting law enforcement with that of Democrats. Vance made the remarks at a National Police Week address to the Fraternal Order of Police and other law enforcement organizations at the Capitol.“You’re always going to have terrible people who want to do the worst things, but allowing so many of those people free rein, allowing so many of them to strike at our law enforcement officers, ladies and gentlemen, that was a policy choice,” Vance said, pointing to Congress behind him.
The vice president promised that the Trump administration “will never again let policymakers in the building behind us allow violent criminals to tee off on our police officers.” Vance also underscored the White House’s record of supporting law enforcement officers, telling the audience, “We stopped handcuffing the police and started handcuffing more violent criminals.”
“We’ve restored a culture that supports — not second-guesses — our officers when they go out and do their important work,” the vice president said. “We’ve ended the shameful practice of micro-management of state and local police started by the last administration.”
