The candidate for the White House dedicated a large segment of his speech to insecurity and “the criminal gangs that are ravaging the cities”.

At that time, he outlined what penalties he intends to impose for the most serious crimes in his new term: “Death penalty for drug traffickers and anyone guilty of sex trafficking of children and women, which is happening in massive numbers, and we also call for a strong death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer”.

The audience of police and family members erupted in long applause, reported the Efe agency.

On drug traffickers, Trump assured that he inherited the theory from Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom he “got along very well” in the pre-pandemic years.

“I told him, do you have a drug problem? No, none. And why? Death penalty, death penalty for drug traffickers, so you don’t have the slightest problem with that. The only problem is that they send the medicines to us,” he concluded.

Trump also pointed out that his rival and current US vice president, the Democrat “Kamala Harris and the communists”, are responsible for the “plague of bloodshed, crime, chaos, misery and death in the cities”.

The newspaper later detailed some crime figures in cities such as Chicago, which it classified as “worse than Afghanistan”, or Baltimore.

And he went on to describe cities like New York, inhabited by homeless people “in numbers not seen for twenty years”, illegal immigrants, mothers “who do not dare to cross with their children to the park”, where “graffiti invades everything” and the innocent “are victims of random or brutal attacks”.

Before Trump’s meeting with the leaders of the police group, the fraternity announced its support for the Republican for the presidency.

This is the largest police labor group, with more than 350,000 members, and has supported candidates from both major parties in the past, the third time it has supported Trump.