President Biden will unveil Thursday his $37 billion plan to stem a rising wave of violent crime by adding more police, expanding mental health and job training programs, and cracking down on guns.
Mr. Biden will lay out the plan during a speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Under his proposal, Mr. Biden will set aside roughly $13 billion over the next five years to add more than 100,000 police nationwide. The funds will be doled out through the Justice Department’s COPS hiring program.
At the same time, the federal government will spend roughly $3 billion to help local communities clear court backlogs to get criminals off the streets.