Trump’s Executive Order “Ending Crime and Disorder”: A Masterclass in Cruelty, Failure, and Ignoring Reality

July 24, 2025 0 comments

Trump’s Executive Order “Ending Crime and Disorder”: A Masterclass in Cruelty, Failure, and Ignoring Reality

Date: July 24, 2025 — If you were hoping the Trump administration had learned anything about compassion—or reality—since its last bout of “tough on crime” theater, sorry to disappoint. The new executive order on “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” is just another chance for Trump to criminalize poverty, demonize the sick, and pad the pockets of anyone willing to profit off punishing the most vulnerable. Let’s break this down, with all the facts the official order ignores (and maybe a cheap joke or two—in case you need a drink after reading).

1. The “Solution”: Lock People Up, Call It Help

Trump’s new order revives “civil commitment”—in plain English, locking up people deemed mentally ill, addicted, or just poor and unlucky enough to be homeless. No, this isn’t some heartwarming psychiatric spa. It’s constraint, loss of liberty, trauma, and a one-way ticket to the margins of society. But hey, it “restores order,” so who cares if it actually works, right?

Remember: Civil commitment has a dark history—just ask anyone who survived the era before patient rights. Or maybe look up a current mental health expert, since not a single major organization supports this as a blanket strategy.

2. “Fighting Vagrancy”: Code for Criminalizing Existence

Prohibiting open drug use? Sure—no one wants needles in the park. But criminalizing “urban camping,” loitering, squatting, and “being a danger to yourself or others” is just political cover for sweeping up anyone without stable housing. Try living outside while complying with all these rules. Go ahead. We’ll wait.

3. All-Out Assault on Proven, Evidence-Based Programs

Trump directs agencies to defund harm reduction (like safe injection sites), “housing first,” and anything that doesn’t sound like tough love—never mind these programs are the only ones proven to cut homelessness, overdoses, and public disorder. Instead? More forced treatment, more drug courts, more wasted billions. If facts mattered, this order wouldn’t exist.

4. Surveillance Expansion for “Accountability”

The new order also shoves health and behavioral data into law enforcement’s hands—a privacy disaster in the making. What law-abiding citizen hasn’t worried about their prescriptions turning into a police file someday? Now, if you’re unhoused and need medical help, good luck trusting a system that treats you like a criminal by default.

5. Making the Poor Prove Themselves—Again

The order says “housing first” failed. Reality: the only things that failed were austerity budgets, sky-high rents, and a lack of support services. “Housing First” helps people stay off the streets—unless you take away all its funding and demand addiction treatment as a precondition. Makes you wonder if the cruelty is the point (spoiler: it is).

6. Fact Check: Crime and Homelessness Aren’t Spiraling—But Panic Wins Votes

The order claims crime is out of control and homelessness is a tsunami. Except major crime rates in cities have dropped for two years running. Homelessness? Rising, but entirely linked to policy failures on housing and mental health—not “loose” criminal laws.

7. The Real Recipe for Safer Streets (Hint: Not What Trump Ordered)

Want cities to thrive? Fund homes people can afford. Give voluntary, trauma-informed care. Provide harm reduction. Hold landlords and the richest to account. Instead, we get scorched-earth politics, more mass incarceration, and headlines that make the MAGA base cheer while the actual problem rots.

A Leftist’s PSA

The people cheering the loudest for this were never in danger, never in need, never interested in actual evidence. They want fear, not facts. If you care about this country, demand policies based on science and dignity, not a nostalgia for 1950s-style authoritarianism.

Trump’s Executive Order “Ending Crime and Disorder”: A Masterclass in Cruelty, Failure, and Ignoring Reality

Trump’s Executive Order “Ending Crime and Disorder”: A Masterclass in Cruelty, Failure, and Ignoring Reality

1. The “Solution”: Lock People Up, Call It Help

2. “Fighting Vagrancy”: Code for Criminalizing Existence

3. All-Out Assault on Proven, Evidence-Based Programs

4. Surveillance Expansion for “Accountability”

5. Making the Poor Prove Themselves—Again

6. Fact Check: Crime and Homelessness Aren’t Spiraling—But Panic Wins Votes

7. The Real Recipe for Safer Streets (Hint: Not What Trump Ordered)

A Leftist’s PSA

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