UNITED NATIONS: To address one of the top worries among Americans before the November congressional elections, US President Joe Biden will lay out proposals on Thursday to ask Congress for USD 37 billion for crime prevention programmes. While in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Biden will give an overview of his Safer America Plan. He will add the USD 37 billion in his budget proposal to Congress for the fiscal 2023 year, which starts on October 1.

According to a White House fact sheet, his proposals include for spending USD 13 billion over the following five years to recruit and train 100,000 more police officers. Longtime Democratic progressives' campaign to "defund the cops" had been rebuffed by Biden. According to polls, crime is one of the biggest problems confronting the nation. Biden is working to support Democrats in the expected bitterly contested midterm elections in November, which will determine whether they maintain control of Congress.

In an effort to lower gun violence, Biden would invest USD 3 billion to assist localities in clearing court backlogs and creating task groups to share intelligence. In the midst of a drug overdose epidemic, his plan would also impose harsher punishments for fentanyl trafficking. The strategy urges Congress to enact laws requiring online marketplaces like Amazon to authenticate the information of third-party sellers and to hold them accountable for the sale of stolen products on their platforms in order to combat organised retail theft.

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