Operation Legend: 1,500 Arrests
U.S. Attorney Gen. Bill Barr announced the arrests of nearly 1,500 people in the Department of Justice’s fight against crime via its Operation Legend campaign. Barr said in a Wednesday Kansas City news conference that the project, which utilizes federal agents to assist local law enforcement in what the AG described as a “recent upsurge in crime,” has been expanded to nine cities in an effort to quell the violence. The operation was named after 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed inside his home in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 29, 2020.
Barr added that more than 1,000 additional officers from the FBI, DEA and ATF are being assigned to help local law enforcement track down wanted suspects and are literally working shoulder-to-shoulder to crack these cases. He says that in addition to the operation, the DOJ has allocated $78.5 million in grants and other funds to support state and local law enforcement. “Operation Legend is the heart of the government’s response to this upturn in violent crime,” Barr says. “Its mission is to save lives, solve crimes and take violent offenders off the street.” Here’s more from Global News.
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