Sessions announces expansion of violent crime crackdown, gun tracing programs

By Andrew Shepperson

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday the expansion of programs aimed to crackdown on violent crime and drug trafficking and also vowed to expedite the process for tracing guns used in shootings.
Sessions plans to reinvigorate and expand the Project Safe Neighborhoods program to fight drug trafficking and violent crime in neighborhoods across the country, the Justice Department said. The Attorney General issued a memo to United States Attorneys directing prosecutors to implement the enhanced crime reduction program.
“According to the FBI, the violent crime rate has risen by nearly seven percent over the past two years, and the homicide rate has risen by more than 20 percent,” Sessions said in a statement. “We cannot be complacent or hope that this is just an anomaly: we have a duty to take action.
“Fortunately, we have a President who understands that and has directed his administration to reduce crime. The Department of Justice today announces the foundation of our plan to reduce crime: prioritizing Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program that has been proven to work.”
Sessions went on to note that the program is meant to be the main piece in the department’s crime reduction strategy and has been enhanced and

Source: Guns.com