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U.S.
Attorney
Dawn
Ison
announces
a summer
crackdown
on
gun-related
crime in
Detroit
on
Monday,
June 6,
2022.
Ison
said her
prosecutors
will
focus on
the
city's
8th and
9th
precincts
and
swiftly
make
decisions
on
charges,
working
closely
with
Detroit
police
and
federal
agents.
They're
pledging
to take
felons
who are
caught
with
guns to
federal
court
where
prison
sentences
typically
are
longer
than in
state
court.
(AP
Photo/Ed
White) |
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Feds
cracking
down on
violence,
guns in
parts of
Detroit
By ED
WHITE
apnews.com
DETROIT
-
Authorities
on
Monday
announced
a summer
crackdown
on crime
in
certain
areas of
Detroit,
pledging
to take
felons
who are
caught
with
guns to
federal
court
where
prison
sentences
typically
are
longer
than in
state
court.
U.S.
Attorney
Dawn
Ison
said her
prosecutors
will
focus on
the
city’s
8th and
9th
precincts
and
swiftly
make
decisions
on
charges,
working
closely
with
Detroit
police
and
federal
agents.
“As
temperatures
rise, so
does
violence.
...
Along
with a
few
violent
actors
there
are also
very
small
areas
that
contribute
to most
of the
violence
in our
communities,”
Ison
said.
She said
mass
shootings
in the
U.S.,
which
have
dominated
recent
headlines,
are
“horrible”
but
“there
is more
urban
violence
still
than
mass
shootings.”
A felon
caught
with a
gun can
face up
to 10
years in
federal
prison.
Crimes
committed
with
guns can
carry
even
more
severe
sentences.
Mayor
Mike
Duggan
welcomed
the help
in the
city of
639,000
people.
He said
the
number
of
gunshot
victims
in
Detroit
was down
25%
compared
to a
year ago
“but it
doesn’t
feel
like a
celebration.”
Duggan
noted
the
weekend
death of
an
11-year-old
girl who
was
dancing
at her
grandmother’s
house
when she
was hit
with
stray
gunfire
from
outside
the
home.
“Just
senseless,”
police
Chief
James
White
said.
“Irresponsible
gun
ownership,
irresponsible
use of a
weapon —
it is of
epidemic
proportions
right
now in
our
country
and in
our
city.”
A
neighborhood
activist,
Sandra
Turner-Handy,
said the
girl’s
death
occurred
in an
area now
getting
extra
attention
from law
enforcement.
“It is
time to
start
saving
our
residents
in this
city. It
is time
to stop
crying
all the
time
with the
chief
about
our
babies
being
shot,”
Turner-Handy
said.
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first
320
people
shot in
detroit.
down 25
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