November 23, 2021
In the summer of 2020, the Trump administration launched Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement program that dedicated hundreds of agents to “fight violent crime” in several U.S. cities, in what critics saw as a political effort to bolster the president’s “law and order” reelection campaign during a time of heightened unrest. American Oversight is investigating the Trump administration’s politicization of federal law enforcement resources and the origins and implementation of the program.