New police officers are sworn in at a Chicago Police Department promotion and graduation ceremony on Oct. 20, 2021. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Communities across the country witnessed a violent crime spike in 2020, with murders increasing by nearly 30% compared to the year prior, according to FBI data. It marked the largest single-year increase in killings since the agency began tracking the crimes.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
The crime wave continued in the following years, as California faced repeated smash-and-grab robberies at swank department stores in 2022 and 2023; car thefts at the hands of youths and adults rocked cities such as Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia in 2022; and chain stores and mom-and-pop shops fled high-crime areas in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and elsewhere starting in 2021.
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Groups rally to defund police across from the Chicago Police Department on July 24, 2020. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Details on the upcoming executive order shared with Fox Digital took specific issues with local "soft-on-crime policies" that have sowed "chaos," such as sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, cities that "ignore shoplifting, vagrancy, and urban encampments," and recent bail reform initiatives that do not require suspects charged with crimes to post bail in order to leave jail while they await trial.
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The executive order instead will work to fulfill Trump's Make America Safe Again 2024 campaign promise, following other safety-focused executive actions such as securing the border and combating antisemitism that ran rampant on college campuses following the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel in October 2023, Fox Digital learned.
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"President Trump’s Executive Order empowers law enforcement to restore law and order," according to the White House. "Millions of Americans live in fear, worried that surging crime will destroy their lives, homes, or businesses."
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