President Joe Biden heads to New York City on Thursday after a spate of headline-grabbing violent crimes, hoping to turn the politically fraught issue of crime into a new focus on combating gun violence.
As Democrats grapple with how to tackle a problem that has been used against them by Republicans with some success in past elections -- and is shaping up to be a key issue in the midterms this fall -- Biden will be elevating his party's work on combating illegal guns onto the national stage. In New York, the President is expected to lay out how his administration will build on the comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence he unveiled last summer amid a surge in violent crimes.
See NYC mayor's remarks after NYPD officer was killed 01:56Guns and policing The issues of guns and policing are inextricably linked, as any legislative push that criminalizes gun or gun-accessory possession will rely on police to arrest and process alleged offenders. Gun crime is already a major focus of police departments in major cities and departments seized thousands of guns last year, through enforcement and gun turn-in events.
No, Black people aren't to blame for police brutality 02:37The surge in gun violence and homicides in some places has been a political vulnerability for Democrats and the Biden administration, coming after the"defund the police" movement that swept across the country in 2020.
Violent crime on the rise amid calls to defund police 03:18During a 2020 meeting in Georgia before the state's US Senate runoff elections, Biden told the leaders of seven civil rights organizations that the topic of police reform should be avoided because Republicans have seized on the"defund the police" movement to paint Democrats as radical and anti-police.
The level of crime seems to be spiking in the US in the last few months. Worrying trend.
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