Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALMMiami Named by AG Jeff Sessions in Program Targeting Crime-Ridden Cities
Miami and four other cities were selected as new sites to join the Trump administration's 2017 initiative extending federal resources to state and local law enforcement officials.
August 20, 2018 at 04:37 PM
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Miami is among the five cities chosen to join the National Public Safety Partnership, a federal effort to extend aid and training to municipalities riddled with crime.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the PSP venture is part of President Donald Trump's “promise to make America safer.”
The Justice Department-led program was created in February 2017 and enables the federal government to provide resources to state and local law enforcement officials tackling violent crime. A DOJ press release issued Monday singles out “gun crime, drug trafficking and gang violence,” among the issues targeted by the initiative.
Miami became the newest PSP site alongside Kansas City in Missouri and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Saginaw in Michigan, and Salisbury in North Carolina are being added as preliminary diagnostic sites as well. These cities join Buffalo in New York and Houston among PSP sites.
According to the release the areas chosen to receive PSP aid “are selected through a process that considers both quantitative and qualitative measures, including sustained levels of violent crime that far exceed the national average. PSP sites must demonstrate a commitment to reducing violent crime.” The release also adds that this commitment must include violent crime relating to illegal immigration as of August 2017.
“Reversing the recent troubling increase in violent crime in our country is a top priority of the Department of Justice,” Sessions' statement reads. “Cooperation with our fabulous state and local partners is the single most important aspect of our strategy to reduce crime.”
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