“The answer is not to defund the police,” Biden said.
. The U.S. homicide rate may remain well below what it was in the early 1990s. But the rise is still deeply concerning, and has flummoxed leaders, who have struggled to get the issue under control.and the Democrats to find policy answers to address it — and political answers to stave off Republican attacks heading into the midterms.
, a former police captain who has dubbed himself the “Biden of Brooklyn.” Both moderates, the two have each attempted to strike a balance between embracing police reforms and combating crime. “We’re not going to return to the era of heavy-handed policing,” Adamsahead of his meeting with Biden. “But we also can’t return to the era of 2,000 homicides a year.”
But how to strike that balance? Biden on Thursday expressed a vision of law enforcement in which police are “partners” in the communities they serve, not occupying forces, as . “It’s to give you the tools, the training, the funding to be partners, to be protectors.”That’s not exactly a controversial sentiment: Though Republicans have repeatedly cast Democrats, including moderates like Biden, as the party of “defund the police,”
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