“Donald Trump has signed three executive orders to deal with ‘public safety’, including handing more authority to the police.  He insisted that the US faced the ‘threat of rising crime’ and that ‘things will get better very soon’.  [Jeff] Sessions, a longtime Senator from Alabama who was once deemed too racist to serve as a federal judge, told reporters that the US ‘has a crime problem’.  ‘I wish the rise that we’re seeing in crime in America today were some sort of aberration or a blip,’ he said.”