Guns are at the center of the debate as the nation grapples with homicides that spiked nationally in 2020.
. Law enforcement officers recovered historically high numbers of firearms last year and are coming across more firearms stripped of serial numbers, making them impossible to trace.
Police are conducting less proactive investigations, while communities are reporting fewer crimes and offering less information when police try to solve them, in part because a widening gulf of mistrust following a focus on killings of Black people by police and the unrest that followed. Adams' tough-yet-middle-ground approach is one that Biden and other moderate Democrats have sought out, especially as they try to distance themselves from calls from progressives to shift money away from police departments and into social programs.
Chief Michel Moore of the Los Angeles Police Department said more money is important, but fully staffed federal law enforcement agencies would also make a big difference. A recent call with police leaders grew contentious when a few police officials accused Attorney General Merrick Garland and his deputies of failing to put them first and not offering enough support for law enforcement, said the two people, who were not authorized to publicly discuss the private call and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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