Sentences with phrase «on gun crime»

The prime minister has promised that the government will respond to police calls for a tougher stance on gun crime.

Following the recent focus on gun crime, Mr Blair defended the government's record on knife crime, stating that it would be introducing tougher sentences for the possession of knives.

Commenting on the chief constable's claims, shadow home secretary David Davis accused the government of failing «to get a grip» on gun crime.

This afternoon's event was supposed to focus on gun crimes in low - income communities, and to push for more city funding for summer jobs intiatives, but activist Tamika Mallory took it as an opportunity to blast the commissioner for his «disparaging» remarks.

Prosecutors are tough on gun crimes and will aggressively pursue criminal charges against you.

Several top Minneapolis leaders are claiming some judges are soft on gun crimes, allowing dangerous criminals back on the streets when they could be in prison.

Not exact matches

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

Australia's success in tightly restricting gun ownership after its worst mass shooting, and the concomitant reduction in gun crimes and mass shootings, is likely to be held up by proponents of gun control as an example for what the U.S. should do after its latest mass shooting on Sunday.

Defense lawyers said the shooting was an accident that happened when Garcia Zarate, who had a history of nonviolent drug crimes, found the gun wrapped in a T - shirt or cloth under his seat on the pier just seconds before it discharged in his hands.

If not for the ban on consolidating data into a searchable system, the ATF could create a database that allows it to immediately check the sales history of any gun used in a crime.

Kudos to Gov. Larry Hogan («Puppy power on display in Annapolis as Gov. Hogan signs animals bills and crime, gun legislation,» April 24).

How about an indepth investigation on the Obama administration selling guns to mexican cartels and these guns showing up at crime scenes.

Switzerland is the most gun populated country on earth and their crime rate is non-existent.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

He should have first hand experience how gun control has no affect on crime, shootings and thugs!

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

Even when I was a pacifist, I lived in a very high - crime neighborhood, and called the cops on numerous occasions so that officers with guns could go after the criminals with guns and lock them up in our tremendously violent prison system where guards with guns would keep them there.

I'm very pleased with the way he has handeld it, since there is the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, that makes going in with our guns blazin an international crime itself.

He even went into the toughest parts of Detroit and personally asked gun - toting drug dealers and gang members to give crime a day off on Sept. 27.

«My chief officer colleagues and I have been invited by the home secretary Jacqui Smith to undertake some urgent work building on recent successes to identify what additional progress we can make to work more effectively across all government agencies and with both statutory and non-statutory organisations, around tackling gang related gun crime and the supply of guns.»

Meanwhile, Abbey has distanced himself from the crime, saying «although the gun was found on me, it was given to me by Toihile.

The gun control group Giffords on Monday endorsed legislation that would have law enforcement agencies publish online the source of guns used in crimes committed in New York.

This blog post attempts to show correlation, if any, on a scatter plot between gun ownership and murder / crime rates.

Indeed, «data on firearms ownership by constabulary area in England,» like data from the United States, show «a negative correlation,» that is, «where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest.»

«The gun industry and its allies often attempt to block research and data - gathering on gun violence, but analysis like this can both demonstrate the life - saving effectiveness of sensible gun laws, and also help us prevent gun crimes and solve them when they occur.

She attributes the change to becoming educated by people like Mayor Bloomberg about the influence of illegal guns on urban crime.

The Times Union reported on Attorney General Schneiderman's new report tracing guns used in crimes in New York to their source.

233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others.

«Eric Schneiderman has worked to reform our criminal justice system with «smart on crime» policies, like changing the Rockefeller Drug Laws and taking effective steps to stem the flow of illegal guns,» Koch said.

Sheriff Howard advocates that legislators focus their attention on the people who commit gun crimes rather than on guns — a test that the SAFE law fails miserably.

«That is why we set up the Tackling Gangs Action Programme last year to focus on gun and gang violence in the four cities where over half of gun crime occurs.»

A public - safety program would crack down on gun - related crimes through expanded penalties based on a California law aimed at the use of a firearm while in the commission of a crime.

Working with the Erie Crime Analysis Center and law enforcement, prosecutors attempt to detect and prevent gun violence before it occurs by identifying on - going feuds and developing strategic leads to interrupt the violence.

«We need him to build on his phenomenal success in improving our schools, to continue his national leadership in reducing crime and getting illegal guns off our streets and to keep improving our quality of life as no other has in my 27 years in government.»

Crime statistics for the City of Rochester in 2016 were unveiled Tuesday and with that came optimism from Mayor Lovely Warren, who said shootings were down overall, thanks in part to a sharp focus on illegal guns.

Sen. Michael Gianaris says publicly available data on the guns used in crimes «will help focus advocacy efforts in the right place.»

He thinks those who disagree that assessment are living on another planet, citing gun and knife crime, alcohol - related crime and the «angry harsh culture of incivility» which he says have disappeared within a generation.

This will include a crackdown on underage drinking, as well as early intervention to keep young people away from guns and knife crime.

Mainline Democrats in the state Senate on Tuesday plan to push a package of gun control measures they say are needed given the Republican control of the White House and Congress — placing new restrictions on those convicted of hate crimes and limiting the number of guns a person can purchase in a month.

The Police officers who were on a motorbike towards their stationed barrier, coincidentally appeared at a crime scene where passengers onboard a commercial vehicle from Kwahu Tafo to Adawso in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern region were being robbed at gun point.

Tony Blair has called on black communities to denounce gun and knife crime, following the latest spate of youth - on - youth attacks.

Farage claimed the ban on handguns, brought in after the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, is «ludicrous» and believes there is «no link» between legalised guns and gun crime in the UK.

Crime statistics for the city of Rochester in 2016 were unveiled Tuesday and with that came optimism from Mayor Lovely Warren, who said shootings were down overall, thanks in part to a sharp focus on illegal guns.

At 5 p.m., the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City hosts a panel discussion on the role social media plays in gun violence, with New York University's Dr. Shabnam Javdani and others, John Jay College, Moot Court Room, 524 W. 59th St., Manhattan.

Thousands are expected to march through London today to protest against knife and gun crime as it was also revealed only 10 of the capital's 74 MPs attended a debate tabled in the House of Commons on the issue on Thursday.

Civil rights veteran Jesse Jackson spent the afternoon rejecting the views of MPs on the home affairs committee as he gave evidence on violent knife and gun crime.

The number of firearms officers has increased in recent years, rising from 5,763 in 2002 - 03 to 6,243 last year, but gun crime is also on the rise, with the latest Home Office figures showing an increase of six per cent on the previous year.

The ADP leader was only released from detention for gun related crimes on 7 June 2017 after he secured bail from a Magistrate Court.

«They must ensure there are sufficient numbers of authorised firearms officers to call upon, to deal with the increasing number of gun crimes reported each year and I urge the new home secretary to hold chief officers to account on this.»

Meanwhile, gun advocates and libertarians say the bill would infringe on people's civil liberties and right to due process, by making it possible for the Attorney General to refuse someone a gun and deny certain information about why they'd been refused — without indicting that person or convicting them of a crime.