WASHINGTON — “What can the president do to assist recruitment of law enforcement officials? He’s accomplished nicely with the army and border patrol. What may be accomplished for law enforcement officials patrolling the streets of America?”
That was the query put to the White Home throughout an Aug. 28 press conference, White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed to the successes in federal legislation enforcement recruiting, noting that an ICE recruitment marketing campaign introduced in 130,000 candidates, bringing in additional candidates than there are jobs to fill.
“Clearly People need to serve their communities,” Leavitt stated. “They simply want a pacesetter who encourages them to take action. So possibly [Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker] ought to spend much less time demonizing police and extra time to recruit extra police.”
Pritzker has been vocal about retaining Nationwide Guard troops out of Chicago after President Donald Trump proposed a deployment comparable the one in Los Angeles.
“To the general public servants who’ve forsaken their oath to the Structure to serve the petty whims of an boastful little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and attempt to incite my folks into violence as a pretext for one thing darker and extra harmful: We’re watching, and we’re taking names,” Pritzker said in an Aug. 25 speech.
“The president desires to permit legislation enforcement, whether or not it’s state, native [or] federal, to do their jobs, to place criminals behind bars and to take away public security threats from American communities. He’ll proceed to do this.”
Whereas Leavitt didn’t define new federal initiatives to help state or native recruitment, the administration has beforehand pointed to steps it says help legislation enforcement. Earlier in 2025, Trump signed an executive order aimed toward boosting sources for police, together with growing officer pay, increasing coaching and protections, and offering higher entry to surplus army tools.