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    Attorney General Jeff Sessions vows new violent crime fight

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions vows new violent crime fight

    Kevin Johnson , USA TODAY5:20 p.m. MT Feb. 27, 2017


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    WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions reaffirmed a commitment Monday to elevate violent crime reduction as one of his top priorities as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, suggesting that a recent uptick in murder likely foreshadowed deeper public safety problems across the country.

    "We're going to focus on some things to reduce crime in America...Something is happening out there,'' Sessions told reporters, offering a preview of a scheduled Tuesday address before the National Association of Attorneys General.


    From gun crime and illegal drugs, including marijuana, Sessions signaled that the Justice Department was poised to take tougher enforcement stands.


    While the Obama Justice Department vowed not to challenge state laws that allow for medical and recreational marijuana use as long as it did not involve minors or cover for organized trafficking, Sessions said he was troubled by "violence'' associated with the drug's use and distribution.


    "There is more violence around marijuana than one would think,'' he said, declining to elaborate.


    Sessions, a former federal prosecutor and Alabama attorney general, said he was most troubled by a spike in violent crime in 2015 and preliminary data from last year that appear to reinforce those concerns.


    Both the attorney general and President Trump have repeatedly cited concern for violent crime, despite data which has shown sustained long-term declines.


    While murder jumped by 11% in 2015, the biggest one-year increase in more than 40 years, the overall rate remains the lowest in decades. A December analysis of the 2016 overall crime rate in the nation's 30 largest cities by New York University's Brennan Center for Justice found that the rate was expected to remain roughly the same as 2015, indicating that rates "will remain near historic lows.''

    Sessions, however, said he was following through on Trump's executive order to create a crime reduction task force. He said discussions about the mission of the panel already have taken place with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals Service.

    "We are going to reinvigorate our department from top to bottom,'' the attorney general said. "I want to see (federal) gun prosecutions go up. I do think that aggressive prosecutions of federal gun laws will decrease the number of shootings and murders.''


    Saying that he was "really worried about'' the continuing surge of gun violence in Chicago, Sessions declined to commit to pursuing a court-enforced consent decree to resolve the findings in a January Justice Department investigation, concluding that the local police department was beset by widespread racial bias, excessive use of force, poor training and feckless oversight of officers accused of misconduct.


    "Community fear and police disengagement is the worst thing that could happen,'' Sessions said of policing problems that have emerged in cities across the nation in recent years. In Chicago, the attorney general said, a "dramatic reduction in (police) stops and arrests has to to be a factor in violence in the city.''

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    8 states and the District of Columbia have passed recreational marijuana laws, many of them by referendums of the people. 17 more states are slated for elections here soon. That will be at least half plus DC. The states to have legalized recreational marijuana use so far are:

    California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, Massachusetts, Maine and the District of Columbia.

    I hope more pass it and it looks like from articles I've read, legislatures in 17 more states will be doing that this year. It would nice to put an end to this aspect of the War on Drugs.
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    A reduction in the murder rate, regardless of the current number, is something everyone should be able to appreciate.
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    Oh yeah, in these cities and neighborhoods with these horrific murder rates, something definitely needs to be done, so I'm glad to see some focus on it. Trump's been upset about it throughout the whole campaign when these murder and homicide rates spiked in these 50 cities.

    Maybe those arrests Chicago did were guys they suspect for some shootings but didn't have the evidence, so arrested them on gun violations to get them in custody. Can they do that? I guess so. Then they can do ballistic studies of their guns and see if any match up to the bullets found in any of the victims. Chicago PD used to be a pretty crack outfit. Not sure why they got behind the curve on these shootings for the past couple of years.
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