Gun violence and crime in America are both key issues in the 2024 campaign.

As part of our ongoing series about election year issues, our Lisa Desjardan has looked into where the candidates

stand and she joins us now.

It's great to have you here, Lisa.

So let's start with former President Donald Trump.

He talks often about crime despite his own felony convictions.

What's his plan to address crime in America?

Trump's approach is blunt and it focuses on enforcement.

Here is what he said to the National Rifle Association in May.

We have become a drug-infested crime-ridden nation which is incapable of solving even the simplest of problems.

We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers where each dealer is

responsible for the death during their lives of at least 500 people or more.

Trump has given a few other details about this.

Without the music, we can look at it a little more specifically.

First, to do this, he would require that police forces

in order to get federal funding.

Employ stop and frisk.

That is that police method,

which looks at people that police believe are suspicious

and they would pat them down to try and find weapons or guns.

It's a controversial program.

He would require it in order to get federal funding.

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