Protecting immigrant crime victims and witnesses makes us all safer

Protecting immigrant crime victims and witnesses makes us all safer

Federal and local law enforcement officers arrest a man in Washington, D.C., in August. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images) In the course of my 32-year law enforcement career, I came to understand community safety as the reason law enforcement work truly matters. That may seem obvious, but at this moment, it’s worth looking at why it’s so important — and what community safety really means. I became a police officer thinking I knew what the job…