The effort is focused on arresting residents of the suburbs who go to Hartford to buy drugs, Mr. Bailey said.
Obama has made addressing rising poverty a priority for his administration, but remains focused on arresting a three-decade-long trend of declining social immobility, which he says has damaged the economy and undermined confidence in the American dream.
That strategy is a shift from the approach after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when the authorities generally focused on arresting terrorist suspects at the earliest possible point to avoid another terrorist attack.
"It's disturbing that the cops seem very heavily focused on arresting people who are protesting white nationalism and white supremacy," even as Wilson and members of the Proud Boys ― a right-wing nationalistic fraternity ― left without punishment, Mason said.
Immigration agents have been instructed to focus on arresting immigrants who are convicted criminals, implicitly steering away from students without criminal records.
She said felony arrests have fallen by 50percentt in the last 10 years, while arrests for misdemeanors have risen 60percentt, as the police have begun to focus on arresting people for minor quality-of-life violations, from domestic violence disputes to loitering.
Deciding that the Pakistanis would not act on the Taliban, Mr. Grenier said he had urged them to focus on arresting Qaeda members, who he said were far more of a threat to the United States.
As for policy implications, Dr. Earls said that rather than focusing on arresting squeegee men and graffiti scrawlers, local governments should support the development of cooperative efforts in low-income neighborhoods by encouraging neighbors to meet and work together.
An official Home Office response to the removals report said the department had continued to focus on arresting and removing those not given permission to stay on in the UK but had also transformed the approach to cover a much wider range of cases.
Mr Aziz said that the authorities should focus on arresting people accused of more serious crimes.
"You try to get the kingpins behind the trade and not only focus on arresting the poachers," he said.
