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US Authorities Arrest Nearly 1,500 People Under Joint Crime Fighting
Initiative

Masood Farivar

   Federal and local authorities have arrested nearly 1,500 people as part
   of a joint violent crime fighting initiative launched last month in
   major U.S. cities grappling with a rise in homicides and shootings,
   U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced Wednesday.

   The arrests were made under Operation Legend, a coordinated initiative
   named for LeGend Taliferro, a four-year-old shot and killed in late
   June as he slept at home in Kansas City.

   The effort was launched in Kansas City on July 8 and has since been
   expanded to eight other cities. Taliferro's suspected murderer was
   arrested last week.

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