Jeff Sessions today: "Under [President Trump's] strong leadership, we are respecting police again and enforcing our laws." 
Sessions blamed a "consent decree with the ACLU" for an increase in violent crime in Baltimore. But the decree was actually with DOJ, and was entered about two months after he became attorney general.
Here's the speech: justice.gov/opa/speech/att…
Sessions picks up on a Baltimore policing slowdown that @usatoday reported on earlier this year. After Freddie Gray's death, officers in Baltimore seemed to stop noticing crime. Here's the story -> usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
