Biden urges local leaders to boost public safety spending: 'The answer is not to defund the police'

WASHINGTON -- Flanked by law enforcement officials and local leaders in the Rose Garden, President Joe Biden said Friday his administration's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package is boosting public safety by investing in police departments.

Biden said more money should be spent on public safety before the summer months, which typically bring a spike in violent crime.Biden's remarks came as the Treasury Department prepared to release a second round of coronavirus relief funding for state and local governments. Biden has announced a strategy to combat gun crimes, including steps to crack down on rogue gun dealers and slow the spread of untraceable ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers.

Some cities have used the federal funding - which Republicans in Congress did not support - to hire more police officers, buy body cameras and new police and fire vehicles, pay overtime and improve mental health and domestic violence responses, the White House said.

should have prevented those horrid criminal policies long ago ,,crisis to crises while screwing all the people in doing so

His whole fucken campaign was about that!!!!!!!

Hiring more cops decreases crime rate? What a shocker 🤣

The answer is to ABOLISH police… and now Joe Biden.

Police eat up at least half of any cities budget all by themselves, they are the most powerful political block in any city, they act with impunity & resist all civilian oversight and only solve 2% of major crimes but yeah let’s give them more

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This mofo loves the words “spend money”

Yes fund the police but keep the DA who do not press charges.

Wait! What?

😂😂😂😂 they’ll say anything!!!

No shyt!

We have too many in Carol Stream. They're so bored they hang out at GNC, chatting with the sales guys about working out and performance enhancing supplements, while their expensive cars run in the parking lots. An assessment is needed. More and more police is not a good thing.

The US Law Enforcement apparatus is the third-largest military in the world, in terms of funding. If they need more money to do their job, I would contend that they are, at minimum, very, very, very bad at it, and should not be rewarded with even more money.

Police do not equal safety. I repeat, police do not equal safety. We absolutely need to defund the police. No police department should EVER be more than 50% of a city’s budget.

Tell that to the LACountyBOS them nimrods have another agenda

Oh Dang the libs and dems are gonna lose their shit!!!!!!

The answer is to decriminalize hundreds of petty crimes so that we can focus on serious crimes with smaller, community police rather than battalions of “law enforcement”. Old thinking like Biden’s needs to go.

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