Clinton Administration's Law Enforcement Strategy: Fighting Gun Violence and211 Keeping Guns Away from Criminals and Our Children. Taking Back Our Neighborhoods 211 One Block at a Time

摘要

With funding for 100,000 new community police officers, tougher punishment for211u001eviolent offenders, the Brady Act and other laws to keep guns out of the hands of 211u001ecriminals, the Violence Against Women Act, crime prevention programs for yourth, 211u001eand an unprecedented drive to join the forces of federal, state, local, and 211u001etribal law enforcement, the Administration's crime program is proving effective. 211u001eGun crime and violence have fallen dramatically. The Federal Bureau of 211u001eInvestigation's 'Uniform Crime Report for 1997' shows that gun homicides have 211u001edeclined by 24 percent since 1993; robbery with firearms, by 27 percent; and 211u001eaggravated assault with firearms, by 26 percent.