Attorney General Lynch: 'Out Of Tension Comes Opportunity' [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 10/7/1512:00 PM

For the past few years, crime has been mostly a good news story — the crime rate remains near record lows. But several major U.S. cities have been experiencing a rise in homicides and other violence this year.

Now, the Justice Department is bringing together police and prosecutors to figure out what's going on, and how the federal government can help.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch sat down with NPR's Carrie Johnson ahead of her agency's Violent Crime Summit this week, which Lynch says will allow local officials "to talk about what they're seeing in their communities" and learn from situations where violent crime has gone down.

[For more of this story go to http://www.npr.org/sections/it...on-comes-opportunity]

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