The WeChat public account of the CCP's Political and Legal Affairs Commission posted an article claiming that black and evil crimes are "stubborn, recurrent and complex," continuing to build momentum for deepening the special campaign to sweep away black and eliminate evil.
On August 2, CCTV.com reported in a Q&A format that a responsible official of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission addressed the reasons for deepening the special anti-gang and anti-evil campaign and its key tasks, with opinion-based extortion and internet water armies listed as key targets of the crackdown.
In 2021, during the nationwide education and rectification campaign for the political and legal affairs workforce, cases of sentence reduction, parole, and temporary service of sentences outside prison dating back to 1990 were reviewed retrospectively; on June 10, it was announced that 10279 cases of violations had been corrected.