In a speech, the American president took up national figures counting “64 children injured in gun violence since the beginning of the year and 26 killed”.
In power for just a year, Joe Biden has however touted “the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to fight gun crime in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta and in many others”. While admitting that the federal authorities should “do more”, above all against the proliferation of weapons sold in kits, not listed, and the sprawling illegal traffic.
He regretted that the federal government and local authorities did “not have a 9/11-style approach to gun violence”, calling for better cooperation between the police and the judiciary. He called for “criminal justice reform in this city and this country”.
PHOTO BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Joe Biden upon arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport. He is due to visit the city’s police headquarters with new mayor Eric Adams, before meeting with local officials in Queens, one of the five boroughs.
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In 2021, several cities recorded record numbers of homicides. Stores looted in San Francisco, children killed by stray bullets, shootings claiming many victims: these various facts punctuate American news.
Consequence of the pandemic
Admittedly, the wave of violence began to mount before Joe Biden came to power in January 2021, a consequence, according to experts, of the pandemic which has weakened the social fabric. And American cities remain safer than they were in the 1980s and 1990s.
But the president is increasingly blamed for the growing insecurity. According to a December ABC/Ipsos poll, the percentage of Americans approving of its security action fell to 36% from 43% in October.
The Democrat is accused by some Republicans of ignoring the rise in crime and of wanting to cut into the resources of the police, before the legislative elections in November that are off to a bad start for the Democrats.
Eric Adams, on the contrary, is calling for an increase in the NYPD’s budget (36,000 police officers and 19,000 employees) after a protest movement by the New York left against the police in 2020.
“The answer is not to cut police funding,” assured Joe Biden, thus providing his support to the new Democratic leader of New York.
The latter announced at the end of January the restoration of plainclothes police patrols, controversial teams abolished in 2020 by his left-wing predecessor Bill de Blasio after the death of George Floyd, killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, the triggering event of the major protests. “Black Lives Matter” of the summer of 2020.
« Black Lives Matter »
If Joe Biden does not want to be taxed with passivity by the Republicans, he cannot afford to antagonize the African-American electorate, mostly favorable to the Democrats, and to whom he promised more justice during his campaign.
Activists who fight against police violence have not forgotten that in 1994, Senator Biden had fervently supported a harsher criminal law deemed responsible, subsequently, for the mass incarceration of people from minorities.
In fact, the White House seems to have muted certain promises made to the progressive camp in terms of criminal policy.
The president has certainly appointed, at all levels of the judicial system, magistrates from minorities.
But he hasn’t really sought so far to revive police reform inspired by the “Black Lives Matter” movement, which failed in Congress last year.
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Nicolas REVISE
France Media Agency
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Accused of passivity by the Republican opposition, Joe Biden intends to show Americans that he wants to curb the outbreak of this violence throughout the country, a politically undermined subject for him, a few months before the legislative elections to Congress.
“Enough is enough because we know we can do something about it,” hammered Joe Biden in front of a hundred officials from the city and state of New York. They were gathered at the headquarters of the New York police (NYPD) at the invitation of the new Democratic mayor Eric Adams, a former African-American policeman who supports a hard line against crime.
PHOTO CARLO ALLEGRI, ARCHIVES REUTERS
Eric Adams, a former African-American police officer on the right wing of the Democratic Party, has been under pressure since taking office on 1is January to fight crime, especially since two young NYPD officers were shot dead by a violent man in Harlem on January 21.
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In a speech, the American president took up national figures counting “64 children injured in gun violence since the beginning of the year and 26 killed”.
Arms trafficking
In power for just a year, Joe Biden has however touted “the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to fight gun crime in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta and in many others”. While admitting that the federal authorities should “do more”, above all against the proliferation of weapons sold in kits, not listed, and the sprawling illegal traffic.
At his side, Eric Adams has also been under pressure since taking office on 1is January. Especially since two young NYPD officers were shot on January 21 by a violent, armed man in Harlem.
He regretted that the federal government and local authorities did “not have a 9/11-style approach to gun violence”, calling for better cooperation between the police and the judiciary. He called for “criminal justice reform in this city and this country”.
PHOTO BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Joe Biden upon arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport. He is due to visit the city’s police headquarters with new mayor Eric Adams, before meeting with local officials in Queens, one of the five boroughs.
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In 2021, several cities recorded record numbers of homicides. Stores looted in San Francisco, children killed by stray bullets, shootings claiming many victims: these various facts punctuate American news.
Consequence of the pandemic
Admittedly, the wave of violence began to mount before Joe Biden came to power in January 2021, a consequence, according to experts, of the pandemic which has weakened the social fabric. And American cities remain safer than they were in the 1980s and 1990s.
But the president is increasingly blamed for the growing insecurity. According to a December ABC/Ipsos poll, the percentage of Americans approving of its security action fell to 36% from 43% in October.
The Democrat is accused by some Republicans of ignoring the rise in crime and of wanting to cut into the resources of the police, before the legislative elections in November that are off to a bad start for the Democrats.
Eric Adams, on the contrary, is calling for an increase in the NYPD’s budget (36,000 police officers and 19,000 employees) after a protest movement by the New York left against the police in 2020.
“The answer is not to cut police funding,” assured Joe Biden, thus providing his support to the new Democratic leader of New York.
The latter announced at the end of January the restoration of plainclothes police patrols, controversial teams abolished in 2020 by his left-wing predecessor Bill de Blasio after the death of George Floyd, killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, the triggering event of the major protests. “Black Lives Matter” of the summer of 2020.
« Black Lives Matter »
If Joe Biden does not want to be taxed with passivity by the Republicans, he cannot afford to antagonize the African-American electorate, mostly favorable to the Democrats, and to whom he promised more justice during his campaign.
Activists who fight against police violence have not forgotten that in 1994, Senator Biden had fervently supported a harsher criminal law deemed responsible, subsequently, for the mass incarceration of people from minorities.
In fact, the White House seems to have muted certain promises made to the progressive camp in terms of criminal policy.
The president has certainly appointed, at all levels of the judicial system, magistrates from minorities.
But he hasn’t really sought so far to revive police reform inspired by the “Black Lives Matter” movement, which failed in Congress last year.
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