A crackdown on gun crime has been so successful that the mayor of Phoenix is calling on the new police chief to expand the program.It was launched by his predecessor following a spike in shooting deaths and injuries. Phoenix police say they’ve seized nearly 1,200 in three months since ATF agents embedded with a special local unit to fight gun crime.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) The chief of police in Phoenix, the capital of the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona, said that the city's recent spate of gun violence is the worst she's witnessed in her three decades in law enforcement, local media reported.