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Biden to travel to New York City to talk about gun violence with Mayor Adams

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When President Biden meets New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday, the two will discuss gun violence and crime — as well as show support for law enforcement.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

President Biden is traveling to New York City today, where he will meet Mayor Eric Adams at the New York Police Department headquarters. He's going to talk about gun violence and crime and show support for law enforcement. This as the White House works on a new executive order on policing reforms. NPR White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe will be with the president on that trip. Good morning.

AYESHA RASCOE, BYLINE²: Good morning.

INSKEEP: Hey, it's the president's first time meeting the new mayor of the nation's largest city. What's the significance of this?

RASCOE: Well, President Biden is going to meet with Mayor Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul at NYPD's headquarters for a daily meeting that's held in the city focused on combating gun violence. After that, they're supposed to head to a public school to talk about community violence intervention³ programs. Biden is taking this trip as FBI data shows the number of murders has soared during the pandemic.

INSKEEP: Yeah.

RASCOE: And most of them involve guns. This is a really big issue in New York City and other major cities. Two young police officers were killed in New York after a shooting there last month. Adams is a former police officer and has urged the federal government to stop the flow of guns. Attorney General Merrick Garland will also be on the trip. The Justice Department is announcing a crackdown on gun trafficking into New York and other East Coast cities, as well as working to bring more cases against people for using ghost guns in crimes. Those are the ones without serial⁴ numbers or might be homemade. But they also want to talk about community violence intervention programs, things that can help prevent crime. The administration wants more money from Congress for these types of programs and for community policing.

INSKEEP: So I want to place these two Democrats⁵ properly. Neither of them has been with the super progressive position on policing. Neither of them is a defund-the-police person. In fact, Eric Adams is a former cop who has said he wants to be tough on crime. President Biden has said he favors police reform. How much has he been able to do there?

RASCOE: Well, Biden has thrown his support behind the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, but that stalled in Congress. The administration says it's not at odds⁶ to call for more funding for police and at the same time want police reforms. They argue that Biden wants accountable police officers connected to the communities they serve. The White House has been talking to people who have been victims of police brutality⁷. I spoke⁸ with Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the family of George Floyd, who was killed by police in Minneapolis. Crump said Biden can do a lot via executive order, like setting up a federal database, tracking police shootings and police officers guilty of using excessive force. Here's more from Crump.

BENJAMIN CRUMP: If they want to do it, the federal government could do it. They have enough money and resources to make that database happen. This is a matter of if they want to do it, and once they've made that decision, it's going to be done.

RASCOE: Crump says that he feels the administration is serious about listening to victims.

INSKEEP: The politics here is interesting, Ayesha, because we may focus a lot on Russia and Ukraine or a lot of other issues, but crime is something that is affecting people - voters - directly.

RASCOE: Yeah, and violent crime is an area where the Biden administration has been facing criticism because it's up. It was rising before his administration, but it is up at - with him in the White House, and so he's facing questions of what he's going to do to address this. This trip is a way to show that he is taking action to address those concerns, to say we hear you. We're doing something.

INSKEEP: Ayesha, thanks for the update.

RASCOE: Thank you.

INSKEEP: NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

4 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

5 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 odds   

n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别

参考例句：

• The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
• Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？

7 brutality   

n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。