President Joe Biden’s senior adviser, Cedric Richmond, pushed back on a Republican critique that efforts to defund the police have played a large part in rising crime rates across the country
Cedric Richmond, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, pointed the finger back at Republicans for stifling crime intervention efforts in Congress. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo.
, seeks to increase funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ramp up ATF inspections and enforcement, and provide guidance as to how cities and states can use American Rescue Plan funds for crime intervention.“We have a lack of prosecution and we've declared war on the police and that is backfiring on those who have done it,” Graham said in a Wednesday interview.
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