U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke to a crowd of Utah police officers Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of a redoubled effort to crack down on violent crime through local and federal law enforcement partnerships.
Standing under Utah’s Capitol Rotunda, Sessions cited declining violent crime figures and high-profile arrests as evidence that Project Safe Neighborhoods 2.0 is working in this state and across the nation.
“We’re targeting the most dangerous people in the most violent areas,” Sessions told an audience of about 600.
Sessions last year revived Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a George W. Bush-era strategy that had faded during the Obama administration, after noticing an upswing in violent crime rates that had been on the decline since the early 1990s.