Some cities planned to use the funds to increase policing or take different approaches to tackling crime, including working on lack of infrastructure.
Cities around the U.S. are using federal COVID-19 relief funding to tackle other issues that the pandemic brought to the forefront of the nation's attention, including crime and homelessness.'s American Rescue Plan provided funds for COVID-19 vaccinations, stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits and provided $350 billion for state, local and tribal governments. Biden encouraged local officials to use some of the funding to address shootings and homicides, which rose this summer.
Reading that report was"kind of a light bulb moment"—the type of discovery that didn't catch the longtime investigator by surprise, exactly, but did make Whisenand rethink the way he and others in law enforcement had been approaching violent crime. The money is so substantial and allows such broad leeway on spending that communities across the U.S. are trying out new, longer-term ways to fix what's broken in their cities. For some that means addressing rising homelessness, replacing lead pipes that are sickening children or finding alternative ways to fight high crime.
McNamara formed a special office that helped create the Family Peace Center in downtown Rockford. There, domestic violence victims can get an emergency order of protection, find counseling, help with food and housing and other services under one roof. The police also work out of the center. It's a multiagency approach that city officials now want to use for juvenile crime.
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