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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer -

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer -

The states, we are not standing back. we have much more to do and yes my administration wants to advance meaningful reform, to live up to america's promise of equal justice under the law. we want to create safer committees in critical ways. with my american thank you plan and thank you to congress supporting it. everybody kind of forgets, that was $1.9 billion, trillion dollars. we got a whole heck of a lot done like that. it did so well, people don't think know where it came from? what did you do for me lately? we made historic investments in community policing, violence intervention programs...

Of them, the pipelining of them not into college, but so often into prison was having an adverse effect, and we had to go beyond government to deal with it. and 0 so what we it was marshal partnerships in a place like yonkers, with school districts, with businesses, with community organizations and groups, trying to find mentorship programs, violence intervention programs, in some cases re-entry programs for those who had gone through the criminal justice system. processes to encourage young people to set their sights higher. and you now have, as the superintendent said, a movement. where it's...

Cracking down on the gun dealers that are contributing to huge sales of crime guns across this country. alex, this is not a new problem. the enforcement associated with this that president biden talked about yesterday is we're going to tackle homicide across this country, especially the increase we're seeing, we need two things, we need to address the demand side of the equation, we need money for violence intervention programs across the country. president biden provided that in april. $5 billion in the infrastructure bill. and we need to address the supply side. what does that mean? that mea...