Sneed: FOP’s Angelo says Trump has cops’ backs after meeting

“It was humbling,” Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo told Sneed after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. “Although we did not come away with specific promises on manpower and assistance, it was good to hear President Trump was truly supportive of us.”

Angelo said that after the meeting, he and the eight other FOP leaders — including national FOP President Chuck Canterbury — were taken from the Roosevelt Room at the White House and into the Oval Office for a photo in back of the president sitting at his desk.

“I just kept thinking, ‘Man, this is a once-in-a-lifetime moment, and our president is on our wavelength,'” Angelo said.

“At the meeting, I repeated my ongoing statement that when you lose your corner, you lose your block — and when you lose your block you lose your community. And when you lose your community, it catches on fire. And some of our communities are on fire.”

“Although there was no signal yet to send buckets of water to douse our neighborhoods on fire from gun violence, we left knowing the president has our back,” said Angelo, who was with Trump for about 30 minutes.

“It was a 45-minute meeting in total with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Vice President Mike Pence, but when Trump came in it was really electric.

“The president was very cordial and mentioned it ‘was a shame what was going on in Chicago and how tragic it was it was so out of control,'” said Angelo, who is running for re-election next month. “He listened to suggestions on the best ways to support law enforcement and listened to [FOP] President Canterbury’s hopes that if funding for sanctuary cities gets cut, the funds don’t impact law enforcement.

“We told him it is essential to support the rank and file on the front line of this nightmare,” Angelo added. “He noted all the support he constantly receives from law enforcement and the military no matter where he goes.

“I also said that in August 2015, when an agreement was signed to move forward with investigatory stop reports under federal monitoring, it went far beyond the requirements of Senate Bill 1304 to mandate statewide collection of data.

“I said in August, 2015, you would see street stops drop tremendously and before you knew it there would be 700 murders.

Angelo was notified that his mother was gravely ill before he left for Washington. But his sister assured him things would be OK back in Chicago.

“I almost didn’t go to the meeting,” he said. Life can be challenging at times.”

Obama and his people consistently undermined law and order, and thus rank and file police, going back to the incident that led to the Beer Summit early in his Administration (July 2009).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy

There are plenty of other examples, a notable one being the Justice Department investigation of Darren Wilson of the Ferguson PD in the Michael Brown shooting case. Obama did everything he could to keep that situation roiled up, and undercut the beat cop. The actions of Obama and his people regarding Ferguson helped spawn similar riots later on in Baltimore.

Turning around this undermining of police, like much of the work undoing the ill effects of the Obama Administration, will be a multi-year project.

This meeting of FOP leadership with Trump is a good first step in that work.

Those Chicago gang murders numbers are the Chicago media’s fault.
These shooting incidents in Chicago would have never gotten to the level it’s at. If both of its major publications the “Trib” and the Times for after reporting on those killings, rarely report on after the suspects apprehension, report on their trial.

These are never covered because they’ve bought into the socialist meme of “victimhood”. Judges giving light walkaway sentences on the use of a firearm in the execution of a criminal act must be hidden from scrutiny.

If they reported in detail on the out come of the perps trial this problem would be minimized.
By detail I mean previous arrests and sentences of the perp the background of the judges. Including the reporting of the judges names and the walkaway previous sentences rendered also connected to those judges names..

Once they start hammering away with heavy sentences for any use of a firearm including death or getting years sent to some God awwfull institution in Kiska Alaska including juvenilles this krap will stop.

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