{"id":321936,"date":"2026-08-15T06:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321936\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:46:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-president-trump-coming-to-long-island-today-to-tout-crime-statistics-rally-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321936\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | President Trump Coming To Long Island Today To Tout Crime Statistics Rally With Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">President Donald Trump visited Long Island Friday, speaking about public safety before a crowd of Republican supporters and law enforcement officials at the Nassau County Police Training Facility in Uniondale.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Trump highlighted what he described as a historic decline in violent crime, citing a 2025 FBI report that he said showed the largest single-year drop in violent crime in the country.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The president said there were about 3,100 fewer murders nationwide last year compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Trump also used the appearance to rally support for Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is running for governor.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/protesters-rally-against-president-trumps-visit-to-nassau-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Protesters rally against President Trump&#8217;s visit to Nassau County<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The president criticized Gov. Kathy Hochul over New York&#8217;s sanctuary policies and cashless bail laws, making public safety a central theme of his remarks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In response to Trump&#8217;s speech, the governor&#8217;s office sent the following statement: <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cDonald Trump said it himself: he and Bruce Blakeman are united against Governor Hochul holding rogue ICE agents accountable, putting money back in New Yorkers\u2019 pockets at every opportunity, and investing billions to bring down crime, while Blakeman let it hit decade highs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Trump also praised the Nassau County Police Department and its approach to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Beyond the governor&#8217;s race, several congressional contests on Long Island could play a role in determining the balance of power in Washington. Incumbents and candidates in those races were also in attendance joined the president on stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump visited Long Island Friday, speaking about public safety before a crowd of Republican supporters and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-321936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}