With gun violence on the rise in major cities across the country, including New York City, elected officials are scrambling to come up with solutions.
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"We need to increase our funding to ATF so they can give us the sources of these guns that are coming into our city and cities," Adams told"Nightline.""Too many guns are coming from the southern part of the country, flowing into the cities across America -- Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City.
The task forces launched last summer in cities such as New York, Washington D.C. and Chicago and have taken over 3,100 illegal guns off the streets, the White House said.President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol, Feb. 3, 2022. There have been 94 reported shooting incidents in New York City so far this year, 23 more than there were during the same period in 2021,. There were 458 reported shooting incidents during the same period in 1991, the NYPD data showed.
"This is not going to be a plainclothes unit," Adams told"Nightline.""This is an anti-gun unit where the officers are going to have a modified police uniform and they're going to be in unmarked vehicles. And so this is not going to be that style of abusive policing."
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