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"When they see
trouble they have to report it, they are not reporting it, they
are absolutely not reporting it and that's a big problem," Trump
said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday on Britain's ITV
television.
Trump is the front-runner in the race to be the Republican
candidate in November's presidential election. He has made a
series of hugely controversial statements during his campaign
that have boosted his popularity with supporters who see him as
someone who speaks uncomfortable truths, but have outraged
millions both in the United States and around the world.
Trump, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United
States, said it was "a disgrace" that one of the suspects behind
last November's attacks in Paris had been found after a long
manhunt by police in an area of Brussels where he lived.
"He was in his neighborhood where he grew up and nobody even
turned him in and supposedly this is retribution for that. It's
a disgrace," he said.
Trump said there were signs that an attack by suspected Muslim
extremists in California in December, which killed 14 people,
could have been stopped.
"A lot of people in the community knew they were going to do it
because in their apartment they had bombs all over the floor ...
and they didn't report them," he said.
"I don't know what it is. It's like they're protecting each
other but they're really doing very bad damage. They have to
open up to society, they have to report the bad ones."
(Writing by William Schomberg; editing by Estelle Shirbon)
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