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and gun violence with new york city mayor eric adams. this comes as president biden s effort to pass policing reform has stalled. live in new york, the nypd says major crimes in new york city have risen 38% over the past year. what is biden s plan to try to tackle this dramatic uptick? right. one of the things that the president is going to come here and meet with the nypd and the mayor is that will entail some of the initiatives they want to try to curb some of the gun violence. the guns that are coming into new york city. other major cities that are being brought from out of town into the cities. and what they re trying to do is to use federal resources. the department of justice, the attorney general, merrick garland, is coming with the president to talk about some of the ways in which they can use federal resources, u.s. attorneys, atf agents, the fbi
attorney general merrick garland for more atf agents. at the same time the spending more than $400 million on affordable housing, outreach and community development aimed at curbing crime in 15 of the city s most violent neighborhoods. investing in people and places, uplifts lives, stabilizes families and makes neighborhoods vie brants and importantly safe. critics say that plan just isn t working. shootings up 9%, murders up 4%. all of those crimes higher year-over-year. it s even worse in those particularly dangerous neighborhoods. opponents say the mayor is throwing taxpayer dollars at the problem while not dealing with the more immediate concerns like the rise in smash and grab robberies and problems here on the city s magnificent mile. they say the mayor needs a new
covid cases. dr. fauci today saying it is critical to get fully vaccinated, because the delta variant is doubling up every couple of weeks and so far, vaccines do hold up against it, david. the newest front in this virus. stephanie, thank you. and the news from chicago tonight. two federal agents and a police officer shot and wounded in an unmarked car. late today, chicago s mayor face-to-face with president biden, amid those growing pleas for help. abc s alex perez in chicago. reporter: a chaotic scene in chicago. authorities scrambling after three officers were shot. we need an ambulance. we got three p.o.s shot. get some ambulances over here. reporter: the frantic scene playing out in the early morning hours. two atf agents and one chicago police officer working undercover in an unmarked vehicle when they came under fire. at 5:50 a.m. this morning, officers were fired upon from the street towards the onramp while they were in their car. reporter: dozens of first
hit by a stray bullet. he was taken off of life support sunday. america s crime crisis continues to ravage is the city. wednesday, 20 shot dead, 20 wounded.trace, i have to update. an arrest has been made in that ambush of the chicago cop and two atf agents, a 28-year-old chicago man has been charged with using a dangerous and deadly weapon to assault and special agent from the atf. that was the morning of the day that president biden came to town. the cop and the atf agents were part of an undercover operation when they were ambushed and shot. they survived. other gun fire killed three, almost 20 people were shot. chicago s mayor, lori lightfoot spoke with the president on the tarmac. the white house said the president conveyed to the mayor that he will work with her. one of the federal strike forces and gun violence is headed to