{"id":36798,"date":"2021-06-23T18:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36798"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:34:19","slug":"biden-emphasizes-investment-in-police-communities-to-combat-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36798","title":{"rendered":"Biden emphasizes investment in police, communities to combat crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">President Biden\u00a0on Wednesday outlined steps the executive branch is taking to curb crime at a time when cities are seeing spikes in homicides, highlighting ways in which money from his signature economic relief bill can be repurposed to reduce violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor folks at home, the American Rescue Plan, which is a once in a generation investment to reduce violence in America. I\u2019m proud of it. It means more police officers, more nurses, more counselors, more social workers, more community violence interrupters to help resolve issues before they escalate into crimes,\u201d Biden said in remarks from the State Dining Room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means we go after the people who flood our streets with guns, and the bad actors who decide to use them to further terrorize the communities,\u201d he added. \u201cIt means saving lives, and Congress should in no way take away this funding that has already been appropriated.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0on Wednesday outlined steps the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36799,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36798\/revisions\/36799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}