Recently, Biden has also expressed his support for several measures proposed in legislation introduced by congressional Democrats, including a federal ban on police use of chokeholds, requiring racial and religious bias training for officers, and collecting data on police use of force. Focusing on the communityīiden’s campaign declined to say if the former vice president still believes that increasing the number of police in communities is the way to ensure less crime, instead pointing to his support for a community-based policing approach. Kamala Harris, a vice presidential contender and former California attorney general said on Good Morning America Tuesday. “We really do have to get to a point where we agree that the status quo way of thinking about achieving safety is really wrong when it assumes that the best way to achieve more safety is to put more police on the streets,” Sen. While Biden has called this “one of those great inflection points in American history,” his record on criminal justice, and more than two decades of calls for increasing the number of police on the street are getting a second look, putting his past positions at odds with the conclusions of even some allies. More cops clearly means less crime,” Biden went on in the op-ed.Įighteen years later, Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee, mounting his third run for the presidency in the midst of a nationwide discussion on systemic racism, and urgent calls for extensive reforms to policing following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. “Put a cop on three of four corners and guess where the crime is going to be committed? On the fourth corner, where the cop isn’t. “What works in the fight against crime? It’s simple - more police on the streets,” Biden wrote.
Biden cautioned while crime was down in his home state, the country needed to stay alert to the rising rate. In 2002, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote an op-ed for the Delaware State News, reacting to an FBI report that the national crime rate was on the rise for the first time in 10 years.
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