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The government has made reducing knife crime a priority with a target of halving offences by 2034.

“Let me be absolutely clear: Reducing crime and building trust are not separate goals,” he said.

Some trustees have expressed exasperation at state expectations to increase California enrollment and help students graduate to help fill projected workforce shortages while reducing funding to do the work.

Indeed, big cities have struggled visibly with basic governance issues over the past four years, including keeping schools open, fighting crime, reducing homelessness, and managing the arrival of international migrants.

Although he said prisons were an important part of the justice system, he questioned whether the UK should keep on building more prisons because "it's very expensive and...evidence does not suggest that it's an effective way of reducing crime".