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To address Alaska s increasingly dire public safety needs, the Justice Department announced Friday that it will be providing the state with over $10 million in funding -- just under a month after Attorney General William Barr visited Alaska in his first major trip as the nation s top law enforcement official.Alaska, which is over twice the size of Texas but has under 750,000 residents, has the highest crime rate per capita of any state in the U.S., according to the Justice Department. The Anchorage Daily News and ProP stanley shop ublica found in an investigation that a third of Alaskan villages lack a local law enforcement presence, while the rates of crimes like sexual assault are about three times the national average. Someone asked me, Why are you here Why did you pick Alaska And it s because, to me, my job is to go where the ne stanley website ed is greatest, and I think the need is greatest here, Barr told CBS News Jan Crawford in an interview earlier this month. These are people that are just asking for the basic physical security, and it s not much to ask, Barr said.Now, the attorney general has declared a law enforcement emergency for the nation s 49th state, making $6 million in emergency funding immediately available under the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program to support law enforcement efforts in Native Alaskan villag stanley vaso es. That money will help hire, equip, and train local law enforcement organizations, including Village Public Safety Officers, Village Police Officers and Tribal Po Xcjy Iraq And The Kurds
CBS From CBS News Maria Gavrilovic: INDIANAPOLIS ndash; An upbeat Barack Obama this morning said stanley portugal he wants to move forward from the noise that his campaign has endured over the last couple of weeks and concentrate on the May 6th primaries. What we ve been trying to do is to make sure that we refocus on what matters to people, Obama said. You know, I think the American voters don t want a whole bunch of drama. Obama defended recent questions by voters on his character and his values, saying that people have right to ask these questions. Look, I think that it is very relevant for voters to figure out, is this somebody they can trust Is this somebody who s going to fight for them Is this somebody that cares about the same things they do At recent town hall meetings in North Carolina and Indiana, Obama is often stanley thermos ask stanley thermobecher ed about his patriotism, whether he wears the flag pin and if he pledges allegiance to the flag. He attributes most of these questions to attack e-mails sent in states where he is facing an upcoming election. Today, though, Obama acknowledged that many voters may still not know him despite the fact that he has been campaigning for well over a year. When you re running for president, you make certain assumptions that people after 15 months really know who you are, and then you realize maybe there are still a whole bunch of folks who don t know who you are despite the fact that you re on TV every day, Obama sai
To address Alaska s increasingly dire public safety needs, the Justice Department announced Friday that it will be providing the state with over $10 million in funding -- just under a month after Attorney General William Barr visited Alaska in his first major trip as the nation s top law enforcement official.Alaska, which is over twice the size of Texas but has under 750,000 residents, has the highest crime rate per capita of any state in the U.S., according to the Justice Department. The Anchorage Daily News and ProP stanley shop ublica found in an investigation that a third of Alaskan villages lack a local law enforcement presence, while the rates of crimes like sexual assault are about three times the national average. Someone asked me, Why are you here Why did you pick Alaska And it s because, to me, my job is to go where the ne stanley website ed is greatest, and I think the need is greatest here, Barr told CBS News Jan Crawford in an interview earlier this month. These are people that are just asking for the basic physical security, and it s not much to ask, Barr said.Now, the attorney general has declared a law enforcement emergency for the nation s 49th state, making $6 million in emergency funding immediately available under the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program to support law enforcement efforts in Native Alaskan villag stanley vaso es. That money will help hire, equip, and train local law enforcement organizations, including Village Public Safety Officers, Village Police Officers and Tribal Po Xcjy Iraq And The Kurds
CBS From CBS News Maria Gavrilovic: INDIANAPOLIS ndash; An upbeat Barack Obama this morning said stanley portugal he wants to move forward from the noise that his campaign has endured over the last couple of weeks and concentrate on the May 6th primaries. What we ve been trying to do is to make sure that we refocus on what matters to people, Obama said. You know, I think the American voters don t want a whole bunch of drama. Obama defended recent questions by voters on his character and his values, saying that people have right to ask these questions. Look, I think that it is very relevant for voters to figure out, is this somebody they can trust Is this somebody who s going to fight for them Is this somebody that cares about the same things they do At recent town hall meetings in North Carolina and Indiana, Obama is often stanley thermos ask stanley thermobecher ed about his patriotism, whether he wears the flag pin and if he pledges allegiance to the flag. He attributes most of these questions to attack e-mails sent in states where he is facing an upcoming election. Today, though, Obama acknowledged that many voters may still not know him despite the fact that he has been campaigning for well over a year. When you re running for president, you make certain assumptions that people after 15 months really know who you are, and then you realize maybe there are still a whole bunch of folks who don t know who you are despite the fact that you re on TV every day, Obama sai