in Dowd's column for today, makes the big picture point superbly succinctly about this speech:

In his speech, Trump encouraged police brutality and said he was “the big, big believer and admirer of the people in law enforcement, O.K.?” He said that he’s protecting the backs of law enforcement “100 percent.” Except for Sessions, Sally Yates, Preet Bharara and Robert Mueller.

I also like the choice of illustration for the title "President Trump’s Really Weak Week", it's Bosch, but I note which Bosch it is:

Sueprise, sueprise, sueprise! ~ Gomer Pyle

As Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday delivered his usual recitation of the ills of violence and drugs plaguing America, he added in a problem he rarely brings up unprompted: police misconduct.

Sessions often chastises others for badmouthing police and, indeed, his remarks to an African-American law enforcement group in Atlanta included just such a passage.

But what was more notable was his public acknowledgment that "bad" officers were contributing to a lack of community trust.

"We all know the cases of the last several years when, in confrontations with police, lives have been cut short," Sessions told the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives conference. "Just as I’m committed to defending law enforcement who lawfully have to use deadly force to defend themselves while engaged in their work, I will also use the power of the office I’m entrusted with to hold any officer responsible who violates the law."

"You know all it takes is for one bad officer to destroy the reputations of so many who work every day to build good relationships in these communities and who serve with honor and distinction," Sessions added.

The attorney general also said it is a serious problem that minority communities are distrustful of police. And he called the difficulty in recruiting a "catastrophe."

"Only 30 percent of African-Americans say they have confidence in the police," Sessions said. "In the last three years, that number dropped by 5 points. This is a trend that we must reverse. This is important. We have to have good relationships with our communities, and we have to be effective at preventing crime in every community." [....]