“At the end of my 30-year career in policing, I served in the Obama Administration as director of the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The COPS Office is charged with partnering with police agencies across the country to advance community policing. I worked with thousands of police officials across the country during my time as director and the overwhelming majority of them embraced the idea of building relationships in high-crime communities to address the underlying conditions that contribute to crime. Unfortunately, the current head of the DOJ is turning his back on the model.”