Federal agents deployed to U.S. cities to help crackdown on gun violence have made more than 1,400 arrests in roughly a month, Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday. He announced the early results in Kansas City, Mo., where the Justice Department launched the program, called Operation Legend, in July. Since then, the Trump administration has sent more than 1,000 federal agents to eight other cities, where they are working alongside local police to solve shootings, arrest fugitives, thwart illegal gun sales, disrupt...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 19, 2020 22:52 UTC