President Joe Biden was expected to showcase federal, state, and local efforts to get guns and repeat shooters off the streets during his visit to New York City Thursday.
Guns are at the center of the debate as the nation grapples with homicides that spiked nationally in 2020. At least seven 16-year-old kids were killed in shootings last year in New York alone. And 32 officers have been shot on the job so far in 2022, five fatally.Americans purchased a record number of firearms in 2020. Law enforcement officers recovered historically high numbers of firearms last year and are coming across more firearms stripped of serial numbers, making them impossible to trace.
Police are conducting less proactive investigations, while communities are reporting fewer crimes and offering less information when police try to solve them, in part because a widening gulf of mistrust following a focus on killings of Black people by police and the unrest that followed. Police officers salute fallen NYPD cop Wilbert Mora outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan, Feb. 2, 2022.
Biden has proposed a large increase in dollars for local community policing programs and encouraged cities to invest some of their COVID-19 relief money into policing and pushed alternative crime reduction steps such as increased community support and summer jobs for teenagers.In Ohio, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine proposed spending $250 million in federal funds to help first responders fight violent crime and recover from pandemic-related hardship.
Los Angeles and New York are among the cities with federal strike forces aimed at cracking down on gun trafficking. Federal agents are embedded in homicide units in police departments around the country and the U.S. Marshals Service regularly conducts fugitive sweeps to arrest people with outstanding state or federal warrants.
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