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SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY The number of violent crimes in the U.S. rose by 5.6% in 2020, according to new FBI figures — the first increase in four years. - Aggravated assaults rose 12.1%.
Ford electrification plans. Graphic: Ford Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford tells Axios' Joann Muller
that plans announced yesterday for huge plants in Tennessee and
Kentucky will help the U.S. build its own battery supply, rather than
depending on Asia. - Why it matters: The plan is an all-in bet on the biggest auto-industry transformation since the horseless carriage more than a century ago.
Ford announced
twin battery manufacturing plants in Kentucky and a "mega campus" near
Memphis that'll include both battery manufacturing and vehicle assembly
for electric F-series pickup trucks. - The plans total $11.4 billion, with nearly 11,000 new jobs.
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Mike Allen
·Sep 28, 2021
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Good Tuesday morning. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,175 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu.  Join Axios' Bryan Walsh tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. ET for a virtual event on AI's Industrial Revolution. Guests include Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto and Intel #SmartCities expert Sameer Sharma. Sign up here.
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1 big thing: Unpunished crime
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The pandemic slowed the criminal justice system to a crawl in much of the U.S. - Now an increase in violent crime is straining the system even further, Axios' Russell Contreras writes.
Why it matters:
COVID caused backlogs in criminal cases to swell, forcing district
attorneys to focus on the most violent offenses — and decline, delay or
deal down a slew of other cases. - "The older a case gets, the
tougher it gets to prove in a lot of cases," said Billy West, president
of the National District Attorneys Association and D.A. for Cumberland
County, N.C.
What's happening: Prosecutors in Chicago are pleading out or dismissing cases to help shrink courts' backlog. - In Oakland, prosecutors dismissed old cases amid an uptick in violent crime, Alameda County D.A. Nancy O'Malley announced.
- New Mexico Auditor Brian Colón,
who's running for state attorney general in 2022, tells Axios that some
experts believe the backlog actually contributed to recent jumps in crime in urban areas.
Case in point: In
Charlotte, Spencer Merriweather, the D.A. in Mecklenburg County, N.C.,
sees "the very real possibility that it could take more than three years
before some violent crimes make their way to trial — and even longer
for homicide cases." - Merriweather stopped prosecuting low-level drug offenses in February to focus on homicides and violent crime, Axios Charlotte's Michael Graff reports.
What to watch: State
legislatures and local county governments will consider a variety of
proposals — from decriminalization to hiring more prosecutors — to
shrink backlogs.
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2.  Crime in America, in two graphs
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 | Data: FBI. Chart: Axios Visuals Murder increased 29% — the highest single-year spike in 60+ years. Go deeper: Our highlights ... Explore the stats ... Data downloads.
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3. Axios-Ipsos: Americans distrust Biden on COVID
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 | Data: Axios/Ipsos polls. Chart: Jared Whalen/Axios For the first time, President Biden faces a trust deficit on COVID, Margaret Talev writes from the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. 45% of those surveyed (1,105 U.S. adults, Sept. 24-27, margin of error: ±3.2 points) say they trust Biden a great deal or a fair amount to provide them with accurate information about the pandemic. - 53% said they have little or no trust in him.
- Compare that with the peak of trust in Biden on COVID — 58% to 42% — in our Jan. 22-25 survey, just after his inauguration.
Between the lines: The
slide can be seen across the political spectrum, with a net drop of 11
points among Democrats, 17 points with independents and 10 points with
Republicans. - 81% of Democrats, 42% of independents and 11% of Republicans say they trust Biden on COVID.
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4.  Axios interview: Bill Ford on what Henry Ford would say
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| Rendering of Ford's Blue Oval City complex planned for Tennessee. Image: Ford Bill Ford told Joann:
"My great-grandfather was the ultimate sort of disruptor ... I think if
he looked at what we're announcing ... he might just say: 'What took
you so long?' And he'd be right."
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5. Inside House Dems' closed-door meeting
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| Rep.
Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the House Progressive Caucus,
arrives for House Dems' meeting in the Capitol yesterday. Photo: Alex
Wong/Getty Images House Dems started to
coalesce around a deal to pass President Biden's Build Back Better
infrastructure package, with progressive opposition weakening, Axios'
Alayna Treene and Sarah Mucha report. - Why it matters:
If enough progressives move, it would open a path to immediate passage
of spending for roads and bridges, with a promise of future work on
climate change and other progressive priorities.
Inside the room:
At a closed-door meeting of House Democrats last evening, several
members — mostly moderates facing competitive re-election fights —
emphasized the need for the caucus (read: progressives) to accept the political reality of the Senate. - "The Senate's not going
to go along with $3.5 trillion," Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) told
reporters after the meeting. "We don't need to sacrifice our
transportation infrastructure bill on something that the Senate may
never come to an agreement on."
 Where things are headed: Rep.
Susie Lee (D-Nev.) told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell that the compromise
looks like a hard infrastructure vote Thursday ($1.2 trillion), with "a
general framework" for a larger package of social spending, "then pass
it in the next few weeks after that."
 Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),
the Progressive Caucus whip, said she believes progressives still have
the votes needed to vote down the bill if they don't get what they're
looking for.
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6. TikTok hits 1 billion users
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 | Data: Axios research. Chart: Will Chase/Axios TikTok passed 1 billion monthly active users, despite enormous pressure from regulators and increased competition from copycat products, Axios Media Trends expert Sara Fischer writes.
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7.  Obama library includes ball field, vegetable garden
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| President Obama speaks at an alumni event yesterday. Photo: Obama Foundation via Zoom President Obama and Michelle Obama will preside over groundbreaking festivities for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago this afternoon. - The Obamas,
with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, will make
brief remarks in Jackson Park. In a bow to COVID, the audience will be
virtual.
The library will be on 19 acres on
Chicago's South Side, along Lake Michigan, between the University of
Chicago and the Museum of Science and Industry. - The complex will include an athletic field, walking trails and a vegetable garden.
During an alumni Zoom yesterday
with David Plouffe and others, President Obama, 60, said: "I'm not old
enough to want to just ... be in my rocking chair and think back to ...
glory years." - "There will be an entire section
about the campaign in Iowa. ... We’ll have a replica of the Oval
Office, and Michelle's gowns and all that stuff and ... discussion of
various issues like the economic crisis."
- "But even in the museum, what
we're going to be doing is setting up a series of exhibits showing the
degree to which we were just a continuation of a thread — a running
thread in American history."
Valerie Jarrett, president
of the Alumni Foundation, said she hopes visitors will see the library
and museum as "a catalyst for change that each one of us is capable of
making, beginning here in Chicago and rippling across the world."
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8. Parting shot
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Photo: David 'Dee' Delgado/Reuters
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wore this necklace yesterday as she discussed COVID vaccinations.
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