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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) is proud to highlight the results being delivered by federal, state, and local law enforcement officers working together to combat violent crime, dismantle criminal organizations, rescue missing children, and make communities across the country safer.
A new FLEOA video highlights the Trump administration’s renewed focus on supporting law enforcement and expanding cooperation between agencies at every level. Since President Donald Trump returned to office, the video notes that murders have fallen roughly 20 percent nationwide, while violent crime arrests have increased nearly 114 percent. Federal law enforcement and its partners have also taken nearly 5,000 alleged child predators and human traffickers off the streets.
Some of the clearest examples have come from Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tennessee, where federal agents have joined state and local officers in targeted operations focused on violent offenders, illegal firearms, gangs, narcotics, and missing children.
In Memphis, the Safe Task Force made more than 850 arrests within its first two weeks while also working to locate and rescue missing children. The broader effort has targeted some of the city’s most violent gang members, including the leadership of the Rich and Ruthless and Vice Lords gangs.
Across Washington and Memphis, law enforcement operations highlighted in the video have resulted in thousands of arrests, the seizure of more than 1,100 illegal firearms and more than 1,000 pounds of illicit narcotics, and the recovery of more than 150 missing children.
Officials featured in the video emphasized that those results are possible because federal agencies are increasingly working alongside state and local law enforcement as genuine partners, sharing intelligence, personnel, resources, and jurisdictional capabilities rather than approaching violent crime independently.
That cooperation extends across agencies including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Homeland Security, Food and Drug Administration, and numerous state and local departments.
The administration is also applying a whole-of-government approach to transnational criminal organizations, human smuggling networks, criminal illegal aliens, gangs including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, and international drug trafficking organizations. Federal authorities cited in the video said dozens of cartel leaders are now in American custody, while the FBI has carried out nearly 30 foreign transfers of custody across more than 15 countries involving suspected drug traffickers, terrorists, murderers, and rapists.
The video also highlights a cultural change being felt by officers in the field, with one law enforcement official saying officers are once again being allowed to focus on the mission they entered the profession to perform.
“Every agent I come across now in the field or every cop I come across says the same thing. We are finally getting to do what we signed up to do,” the official said.
FLEOA represents approximately 140,000 federal law enforcement officers worldwide, including roughly 35,000 dues-paying members, and continues to advocate for the resources, support, and partnerships officers need to protect the American people.
The results highlighted in Washington, Memphis, and nationwide demonstrate what can be accomplished when federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are given the support and freedom to work together toward a common mission: taking dangerous criminals off the streets and protecting the communities they serve.
For more information about FLEOA and its work on behalf of federal law enforcement officers, visit FLEOA.org.
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