[Chicago]President Barack Obama Gives Credit Of Safety To Police Officers .
Chicago, like some other major US cities, is grappling with an alarming spike in violent crime.
In This City President Said to police chiefs that US safer because of your efforts.
Defended police officers who have come under scrutiny like never before, saying the men and women who risk their lives to provide security are wrongly “scapegoated” for failing to deal with broader problems that lead people to commit crimes.
Unemployment, poor education, inadequate drug treatment and lax gun laws are not the responsibility of police officers, Obama said in remarks to the International Association of Chief of Police, which held its annual meeting in the president’s Chicago hometown.
He blamed the news media’s tendency “to focus on the sensational” for helping to drive a wedge between police officers and a public they take an oath to protect and serve.
He called for rebuilding the trust that once existed between them.
Obama delivered his speech amid a roiling national debate about officers’ treatment of potential criminal suspects following the deaths of unarmed black men in New York, Missouri and elsewhere by police.
.President opened his remarks with a tribute to slain New York City police officer Randolph Holder as hundreds of officers streamed into his wake.
Holder, 33, died last week after being shot in the head by a man he and his partner were chasing. The officers had responded to a call of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint.
A suspect is in custody on charges of murder and robbery in Holder’s killing.
As per White House Obama met with the families of law enforcement officers who were killed on the job,
He also met with relatives of victims of Chicago gun violence.
Source White House