Al Jazeera reports the Trump administration will award St Louis and Jackson, Mississippi more than $60 million each, with its Model Cities Initiative distributing nearly $300 million among those cities plus Jacksonville, Florida, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The article sets the funding against the administration's largely punitive crime approach — including a Memphis federal deployment it hails as a success but that residents and civil liberties groups accuse of civil rights violations — and notes the violent-crime drop predates Trump's return to office.