Biden calls for hiring more police, cracking down on illegal guns to combat crime

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55% : The administration also said they would support local law enforcement with federal tools and resources to help address summer violent crime and invest in evidence-based community violence interventions.
52% : "Our strategy provides, including funding for law enforcement through the American Rescue Plan for states, cities, and to be able to hire police and pay them overtime in order to advance community policing," the president said, adding that the administration's plan also will "invest in community violence intervention."
49% : Meanwhile, senior administration officials told Fox News that they are "eager" to work with state and local officials, law enforcement, community violence intervention experts "no matter what their politics are."
48% : Biden discussed how $350 billion of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package can be used by cities to hire law enforcement officers, pay overtime, prosecute gun traffickers and invest in technology to make law enforcement more efficient.
44% : Fox News correspondent David Spunt discusses David Chipman as Biden's ATF nomination on 'Special Report'President Biden on Monday convened a group of federal law enforcement and community leaders at the White House to discuss his administration's comprehensive strategy to reduce gun crimes, saying there is "no one-size-fits-all approach" to combating gun violence and doubling down on the need to hire more police officers and crack down on illegal firearms.
41% : The administration has also taken aim at "ghost guns" and modified firearms, which are homemade firearms without serial numbers that can be used to trace them, making it difficult for law enforcement to determine where, by whom, or when they were manufactured and to whom they were sold.
35% : BIDEN ANNOUNCES SLATE OF GUN CONTROL ACTIONS, CLAIMS 'PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS'The DOJ "strike force" teams are meant to target illegal gun trafficking in five cities - New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area and Washington, D.C. - all locales where authorities have said many guns used in crimes originate elsewhere.

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