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>> remarks now on president biden on what his administration is doing to fight crime and protect public safety. minutes. >> how are you president biden: hello, how are you? have to say hello before you start.

>> good afternoon, everyone. i want to thank president biden for the tremendous honor of being here today and inviting me once again to the white house. it is my pleasure to talk to you about crime reductions in detroit and look forward to hearing from my colleagues about them as well. in detroit collaboration is our strength and the biggest reason for our crime reduction, the support of our mayor mike doing an with his leadership on negotiations that gave our officers a $10,000 raise, to the strategies that he deployed post pandemic, bringing partners to the table to reopen our courts, many of us saw our courts close down as a result of covid. cases were backlogged and through his leadership and partnerships we were able to get our courts back open and work collaboratively to get cases

prosecuted. our u.s. attorney has been a tremendous partner to us. our one detroit initiative focused on reducing crime in the most violent neighborhoods in detroit while providing resources to better the quality of life for our most vulnerable residents. our deputy mayor, who leads our cities' innovative community initiative called shot stoppers. the c.b.i. has shown promise and look forward to seeing the impact that c.b.i. will have accompanied with our strategies on crime to further reduce crime. our partnership with our local, state federal partners, our prosecutor and wayne county executive and our sheriffs and state police and certainly a.t.f. and f.b.i. our american rescue plan funds have been a tremendous game changer for detroit.

it's helped us reach these historic lows in crime. we've got an 18% reduction in homicides, our lowest since 1966 last year. since 1966 last year. 16% reduction in nonfatal shootings. 34% a 16% reduction in shootings and a reduction in carjackings. the funds have helped us to retrain officers to develop our training center to bring state-of-the-art training to our officers and we looked at best practices in the country and employed those best practices in the city of detroit. our investments in crime fighting tools such as new patrol vehicles dedicated to gun violence allowing officers to respond to these crimes in progress and oftentimes in less than five minutes after receiving the call. the caught of life issues, abandoned vehicles, use our funds to purchase signs.

we are seeing upparticular with dragging and speeding in our neighborhoods and valuable toll help combat those problems. any job opportunities, we have hired a different of new jobs to use civilian professionals, analysts, directors that were otherwise being filled by police officers and able to put those officers on the street and use those professionals to fulfill those roles. something near and dear to my part as a mental trained professional myself, covid brought something we would never see in law enforcement and that is uptick in mental health cries sees. and working with trained professionals allow us to put a police officer who is trained on the street with an actual mental health professional to aid and assist us. in addition to that, we have a mental health professional in

our 911 dispatch center that is able to give immediate services to those folks when they call in. city of detroit handles 14,000 mental health runs in 2023 and now 38 runs and we are on track to hit that number again. it works collaboratively with our mental health training center in handling those runs. in 2024 we are building on that success but we are not declaring victory against crime. we have too much guns and violence in our community. but we will work with our partners to reduce crime in 2024. already as of yesterday we are looking at 18% reduction in homicides as opposed to last year this time. 30% reduction in nonfatal shootings and 40% reduction in

carjackings and building on the progress and continue to work in our community and deploying called serve and protect where every single police officer will work a community service program in our neighborhoods whether it be a aiding a senior before they can patrol in a car. we are going to continue to expand our mental health response. we are grateful for the support of our partners at the white house. thank you on behalf of every member of the city of detroit police department, i thank you, sir. we worked to reduce crime and improve public safety and whenever are going to continue. it is my pleasure to introduce the 467th president of the united states. president joe biden. [applause]

president biden: you walk out the door and families are worried about receiving that phone call. thank you for your service and sacrifice, not just you but your families as well. and thank to the law enforcement communities leaders who helped bring down crime rates to historic lows. we are about to talk about what is going to happen now. you just heard from the chief and we salute the cities that are making historic progress. last year, the united states had one of the lowest rates of all vial -- of all violent crimes in more than 50 years. murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery have dropped sharply along with burglary, property crime and theft. it matters. as president, public safety and

crime reduction is a top priority for my administration and for me and has been a long time back when i was chairman of the judiciary committee. since day one, my administration in working with law enforcement, mayors and community leaders to do what we know works to cep people safe. as referenced during the pandemic, states and cities saw crime rising and faced deep cuts. we stepped up, thanks to my american rescue plan which i might note not a single person on the other team voted tore, we provided $350 billion, $350 billion that was available to deal with these issues. and the fact is that we find ourselves could use it to keep law enforcement on the beat, communities safe from violence.

$15 billion to make our communities safer and added more in grants to help. the justice department invested in programs because the american rescue plan, we have the largest federal investment in preventing violent crime at any time in our history and that's a big deal. and we know being in law enforcement is harder than ever. but we expect it to be everything to everybody. that's why we have invested in more crisis responders to work along side police officers. mental health and social workers respond to nonviolent crimes as well. and recruiting and training officers, more investments to take guns off the street. we are hiring more u.s. attorneys, recruiting more u.s. marshals and investing in technology and training to clear

the court backlog, solve murders and deal with apprehending violent fugitives and bonds of trusts between officers and the people you serve. my budget calls for more officers on the street, walking the beat and working with community leaders and partners to gain public trust and advance public safety. chiefs in this room know when the communities trust the police, we can solve a hell of a lot more crimes a hell a lot more faster and i signed an executive order in community policing and effective and i continue to call to pass the george floyd justice and policing act to make policing the law of the land and made historic investments to prevent crime and violence in the first place.

these programs include people people who are in the neighborhood, people who have been incarcerated and released now and people who have been through it and know what they are talking about and we have a track record of reducing violent crime by 30% to 60%. and finally, my plan goes after the scourge of gun violence. i have taken more executive actions to stop the flow of illegal guns in history and beat the n.r.a. when i signed the most significant gun safety law in more than 30 years. we are going to finish the job and ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines because it has to be done. i formed the first ever gun violence white house office of gun violence prevention and i thank vice president harris for overseeing this important effort. let me close with this, our plan is working but we have much more

to do as everyone knows. and that's why we are here today. my administration is going to choose progress over politics and communities across the country are safe as a result of that, policy. there is no gritter responsibility than to ensure the safety of children, families, communities and our nation. and i turn this over to my domestic policy adviser to get this discussion going, ok? thank you. [applause] >> thank you. before we start in the session -- [snecial chatter] -- indiscernible chatter]

>> the house has gaveled out now and is in recess until 6:30 eastern. when lawmakers return, they're pected to vote on small business related measures. they've been workingn a bill to revitalize d.c.'s r.f.k. football stadium. off the floor the members are continuing to work on funding for the government which ends

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