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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release July 18, 1999

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

Today's Justice Department statistics confirm that our strategy of more police on the street and fewer guns in the hands of criminals is working. Violent crime has now dropped by 27 percent since 1993, and overall crime has fallen to an unprecedented low. We should stick to this common sense strategy.

Unfortunately, some in Congress are willing to play politics with our public safety, and threaten all of our progress. They want to shut down our successful community policing efforts and riddle our gun laws with dangerous new loopholes. To keep driving down the crime rates, Congress should support more police on the street and fewer guns, not more guns on the street and fewer police.

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