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Biden tackles crime, again -- but this time he's in charge
Analysis: It's an unusual step for a president to pause his agenda to point out what's going wrong in the country. But crime rates are impossible to ignore.
June 23, 2021, 8:13 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON — For decades, crime has paid for Joe Biden — at least, trying to crack down on it has.
His signature legislative achievement as a senator was the 1994 anti-crime law that put more cops on the beat, established stiffer sentencing for drug offenses, created incentives for the construction of more prisons, and temporarily banned so-called assault weapons.
As a presidential candidate last year, Biden distanced himself from fellow Democrats — including some of his own aides — who clamored for "defunding the police" by highlighting his proposal to put more money into hiring cops. That decision helped Biden withstand a barrage of soft-on-crime attacks from his rival, then-President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, Biden will focus Americans on rising rates of violent crime, so that he can outline his strategy for reversing them in a speech at the White House.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-tackles-crime-again-time-he-s-charge-n1272077