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Despite High-Profile Operation, US Homicides Surged in 2020

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - More than 6,000 arrests.

   Over 2,600 gun confiscations.

   Hundreds of kilos of illegal drug seizures.

   Before he stepped down last month, Attorney General William Barr touted
   these results of Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement initiative
   he launched this summer, beginning in Kansas City, Missouri, to help
   major U.S. cities combat an unprecedented spree of killings.

   Named for 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he
   slept at his Kansas City home on June 29, the $60-plus million
   initiative targeted nine violence-wracked cities with coordinated
   federal, state and local law enforcement efforts.

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