Attorney General calls for battle with gangs, drugs

KARE ^ | 18 Jul 17 | John Croman

[SkyPilot]

In a Twin Cities appearance United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned that violent crimes and drug trafficking is on the rise in the nation, and called on prosecutors to aggressively battle street gangs.

Sessions addressed hundreds of prosecutors from across the nation who gathered at the downtown Minneapolis Hilton Hotel for the National Association of District Attorneys annual meeting.

"We can never cede a single neighborhood, or a block or a street corner to gangs and thugs," Sessions told the group, citing newspapers stories from Minneapolis.

"Much of our rising murder rate is indeed, I am now convinced, a product of violent gang activity."

He challenged the prosecutors to pursue more gun crimes, and pledged that federal prosecutors are stepping up such cases.

"We've got a lot of people who want to pass more gun laws, but they’re not as enthusiastic, it seems to me, about prosecution the ones we've got," the Attorney General remarked.

"I think if we work together and hammer criminals who carry guns during crimes, that possess firearms after having been convicted of a felony, we will have a positive impact."

Sessions said he believes the uptick in violent crimes in the past few years is not just an aberration, but the beginning of what could a long slide into the high crime rates that plagued the nation in the 1980s if left unchecked.

[9YearLurker]

Yet Sessions isn’t nearly as bad as most of his Jivanka-recommended hires: Priebus, McMaster, Powell, etc.

[buffaloguy]

I agree. One of the comments I heard was that if they had prosecuted Hillary the entire government would have come down. It may have been an offhand comment by Comey.

Lots of planning involved and it may be that there has to be planning at the municipal and state level for the certain violent riots and the extensive arson that will occur.

Sessions has a tough job. We need to give him time to put his assets as well as other’s assets in place.

[free_life]

Be patient. He hasn’t been in office that long

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I am hoping you are right and Sessions is quietly building cases against the Clintons and the other Washington swamp critters, but I am beginning to doubt it. If he turns out to be a coward it will be the greatest missed opportunity to end Washington corruption we have ever had. The voter support is sure there to go after Clintons etc.

Sessions seems to be hell bent on enlarging the failed WOD and grow the corporate prison industry.

[Nuc 1.1]

Concur.