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Trump, Barr to Expand Anti-crime Surge to Several US Cities

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr
   are expected to announce Wednesday that federal agents will surge into
   several American cities including Chicago to help combat rising crime,
   expanding the administration's intervention in local enforcement as
   Trump runs for reelection under a "law-and-order" mantle.

   Hundreds of federal agents already have been sent to Kansas City,
   Missouri, to help quell a record rise in violence after the shooting
   death of a young boy there. Sending federal agents to help localities
   is not uncommon. Barr announced a similar surge effort in December for
   seven cities that had seen spiking violence.

   Usually, the Justice Department sends agents under its own umbrella,
   like agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
   Explosives or the Drug Enforcement Agency. But this surge effort will
   include Department of Homeland Security Investigations officers, who
   generally conduct drug trafficking and child exploitation
   investigations.

   Trump and Barr are expected to be joined at the White House
   announcement Wednesday by Chicago-based U.S. Attorney John Lausch,
   according to his office, along with the U.S. attorney and the sheriff
   of New Mexico's most populous county that includes Albuquerque.

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