Biden announces crackdown on guns to stop rising crime after 'defund the ...

Biden announces crackdown on guns to stop rising crime after 'defund the ...
Biden announces crackdown on guns to stop rising crime after 'defund the ...

Joe Biden is announcing a crackdown on guns today to stop rising crime across the United States following the 'defund the police' movement which followed race riots after the death of George Floyd.

Homicides rose 30 percent and shootings spiked by 8 percent in large cities last year and the problem remains rife. In New York, shootings are up 188 percent compared to his time last year, while homicides are up by 750%. 

The President will lay the blame with guns on Wednesday as he unveils a 'zero tolerance' policy to firearm dealers who fail to comply with federal law - their license to sell will be revoked on the first offense.

The actions will build on executive orders signed in April, when Biden asked the Justice Department to crack down on self-assembled 'ghost guns,' senior administration officials said.  

Biden, 78, is seeking to carefully straddle his stance as being opposed to the extreme-left 'defund the policy' movement, while offering progressives in his camp concrete measures he has pledged to reform the justice system. 

Police officials around the country have said they are struggling with increasing crime and continued tensions between police and communities, and some say their calls for support aren't answered as they take the blame for the spike.

'Many of us - if not most of us - are seeing a rise in crime, while at the same time, we're hearing calls for reform,' Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said of cities in remarks Tuesday at a forum on policing. 'And some of those calls are to the extreme of dismantle and defund ... while all of the same time we're sworn to protect the people.'

Biden planned to discuss 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.

The officials said the Biden administration hoped cities would choose to use the money for alternatives to policing, too, and to invest in community policing models.

While crime is rising - homicides and shootings are up from the same period last year in Chicago; Los Angeles;

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