President Joe Biden is visiting New York City (NYC). He will meet with Mayor Eric Adams, Governor Kathy Hochul and others to discuss ways of combating gun violence in the city. Attorney General Merrick Garland will accompany the president. They will visit the New York Police Department Headquarters (NYPD), in Manhattan, on Thursday afternoon. They will also visit a crime prevention center in Queens, NYC. The last president to visit One Police Plaza (1PP) was President Barack Obama.
Mayor Eric Adams, a retired police officer, who fought the mayoral election saying that he would be hard on crime, said that he wanted Biden to acknowledge that there were what he called “rivers that are feeding the sea of violence in NYC.” He added that the illegal flow of weapons from gun dealers throughout the nation had to stop. There is a lot of illegal gun trafficking along the East Coast and is called “iron pipeline.”
Biden is visiting NYC as there has been a spike in crime with guns as a result of the pandemic. There has been a spate of violent accidents in the city and two police officers from NYPD: Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora recently lost their lives, in the line of duty, in Harlem.
The president’s visit will also be followed by announcements from the Justice Department of initiatives to crack on illegal guns and violent crime. According to statistics by the NYPD, police officers in the city confiscated 135 ghost guns in the 10 months from January to October, last year.
Biden has spoken about “ghost guns” earlier. These kits let owners assemble guns that do not have a serial number. This makes it difficult to trace a gun when a violent crime is committed using it. These guns proliferated during the pandemic.
US attorneys are also expected to prioritize prosecutions of those who criminally sold guns that were used to commit violent crimes.
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Congress has also stalled a national policy overhaul on guns. Millions of dollars in new funds for community policing and intervention programs have not been approved. An ATF director has not been chosen as an earlier pick had to be withdrawn due to lack of bipartisan support. A new name has not as yet been proposed.
