As President Trump seizes on the slogan to paint his opponents as radicals who envision a world of lawlessness and anarchy, Joe Biden and most other Democrats are resisting the left's calls and floating more modest measures to curtail bad police behavior.
."My fear about the term 'defund the police' is it will be misused and abused by people who will want to scare people."
She and other Democratic congressional leaders introduced a police overhaul package Monday that would outlaw chokeholds and"no knock" warrants, require body cameras and create a variety of mechanisms to punish bad officers. "It's important that we're actually seeing forward movement on policing," he said."But there are a number of places — from dealing with grand juries to all the ways in which police get so many different rules after they shoot someone and kill someone — that have to be dealt with.
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