{"id":26050,"date":"2020-06-16T13:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26050"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T20:59:27","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-on-police-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26050","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order on police reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday encouraging police departments to improve training \u2014 a step critics say falls short of what is needed to curb police officers&#8217; use of force against nonwhites.<\/p>\n<p>The order comes as the president faces tremendous pressure to take action following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police last month.<\/p>\n<p>In a Rose Garden ceremony, which at times sounded like a campaign speech, Trump largely defended police officers, saying Americans &#8220;demand law and order. They may not say it, they may not be talking about it,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but that&#8217;s what they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/16\/878229717\/read-president-trumps-executive-order-on-policing\">The text of the order is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The order will create a database to track police officers with multiple instances of misconduct, and use federal grants to encourage departments to meet certain higher certification standards on use of force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump signed an executive order&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26051,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050\/revisions\/26051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}