GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: Since ending his vacation, Vice President Al Gore has been courting one of the Democrats' key constituencies, organized labor. Today he was speaking to law enforcement officers. CNN's Patty Davis has a reported.</s>AL GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I make this pledge to you today: I will always stand with American law enforcement.</s>PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Vice President Al Gore made a pitch for the endorsement of the National Association of Police Organization Saturday. Gore reiterated his support for a constitutional amendment for victims' rights, as well as requiring handguns be sold with trigger locks. If elected, Gore said he'd put 50,000 more police officers on the street.</s>GORE: I'm also going to fight for 10,000 new community prosecutors.</s>DAVIS: Gore did not mention Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush or his running mate, Dick Cheney, but he took the opportunity to talk about his fight to ban so-called "cop killer" bullets, a ban Dick Cheney voted against while a member of the Congress.</s>GORE: There should never be a right to use armor-piercing cop- killer bullets, and that's why I fought to ban them. I think they have no place in our society.</s>DAVIS: It was Gore's third labor union address in three days, as he returns to the campaign trail after a family vacation. Now that the Republican National Convention is offer and Bush is surging in the polls, the vice president is looking to turn the spotlight on to his campaign. (on camera): As Gore campaigns for the endorsements of various unions, he is also preparing to make an endorsement of his own. He'll announce the selection of a vice presidential running mate on Tuesday. Patty Davis, CNN, Washington.
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