Media outlets are touting a national law enforcement group’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, with a prominent New Jersey news source claiming that Harris received an endorsement from a “group that normally backs Trump.”
The group, Police Leaders for Community Safety, does not “normally back” Trump because it was created in June 2024.
Fox News was the first to report the endorsement, calling the organization a “leading law enforcement group” even though the group is only a few months old. The group told Spectrum News in June that it is made up of mostly retired police chiefs and sheriffs, and the group’s main focus is on gun control – a notoriously left-wing policy.
Of course, the group claims to be made up of all party affiliations and to be nonpartisan and support “policies to make communities and the people in them safer, improve and evolve policing, and safeguard the rule of law,” according to Fox News.
Former Rochester Police Chief Cynthia Herriott, who resigned less than a year into her job and oversaw numerous controversial police decisions, told Spectrum she was selected as one of 50 nationally recognized police leaders to join the group.
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While the newly-created group endorsed Harris, the National Fraternal Order of Police, which has 377,000 members, endorsed former President Donald Trump earlier this month, The Daily Wire reported.
“I am so honored to receive the Fraternal Order of Police official endorsement for President of the United States,” Trump posted on X following the announcement. “Thank you!”
FOP National President Patrick Yoes said the organization’s members voted to endorse Trump and that there was “no doubt—zero doubt—as to who they want as our President for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.”
“During his first term, President Trump made it clear he supported law enforcement and border security,” Yoes said. “In the summer of 2020, he stood with us when very few would. With his help, we defeated the ‘defund the police’ movement and, finally, we are seeing crime rates decrease. If we want to maintain these lower crime rates, we must re-elect Donald Trump.”
The organization said it considered both Trump and Kamala’s policies, and also the answers to a questionnaire that Trump filled out. Harris did not respond to the organization’s questionnaire, but instead, her organization sent a letter describing her alleged positions on law enforcement matters.
The FOP usually endorses Republicans, though it endorsed former President Bill Clinton in 1996 and made no endorsement in 2012.
