Grapevine (WBAP/KLIF News) – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with local, state and federal law enforcement in North Texas Tuesday. Sessions has been meeting with US attorneys across the country.
Sessions also met with faith leaders and attended a briefing on violent crime with the FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He then spoke at a conference for the drug education program, DARE, saying drug overdoses killed 60,000 people last year.
“This danger and the deaths we are seeing is unprecedented in the history of this republic,” he said. “It’s become an epidemic.”
Sessions announced a $35 million settlement with a pharmaceutical company he says was not reporting suspicious sales of Oxycontin to the DEA.
“We’ve sent a clear message to the drug companies: this Department of Justice will hold you accountable,” he says.
Sessions says he will make changes to the Obama Administration’s “Smart on Crime” initiative that cut sentences for first-time and low level offenders. The initiative urged prosecutors to use diversion programs for first-time offenders.
“Instead of barring prosecutors from faithfully enforcing the law, this policy empowers entrusted professionals to apply the law fairly,” he says.
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