U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday sent letters sent to nine jurisdictions across the nation - including Milwaukee County - that have policies which limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration efforts. The letter threatened to cut off the cities' law enforcement grants over their sanctuary city status.
The department said Friday in a statement NY "continues to see gang murder after gang murder, the predictable outcome of the city's "soft on crime" stance".
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In a press release Friday to announce threats to the Big Apple and eight other jurisdictions to withhold federal funding to sanctuary cities, Sessions' Justice Department characterized NY as "soft on crime". "This is an insult, this statement".
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De Blasio demanded that Trump and Sessions either renounce the statement or stand behind it.
The mayor and police commissioner blasted President Trump on Friday evening for his "outrageous" statement on crime-fighting in the Big Apple, daring the president look NYPD cops "in the eye" and tell them they're "soft on crime". "See how that feels", the mayor said. They are so far ahead of many other cities.
The program is named after Eddie Byrne, an NYPD officer who was gunned down in 1988 while guarding the home of an immigrant who'd been targeted by gangs for reporting serious crimes in the neighborhood.
The Justice Department statement drew a quick rebuke from NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill who called the characterization "insulting" and made his "blood boil".
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