{"id":1268686,"date":"2022-02-03T15:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1268686"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:52:39","slug":"biden-says-america-cannot-defund-the-police-to-make-cities-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-america-cannot-defund-the-police-to-make-cities-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says America Cannot Defund The Police To Make Cities Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-america-cannot-defund-the-police-to-make-cities-safer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1268686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden said Thursday that the answer to rising crime is not to \u201cdefund the police\u201d and that cities should be doing the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking about gun control in New York City following the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/21\/police-killed-shooting-2-critical-condition-new-york-city-harlem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fatal shooting<\/a> of two police officers in Harlem, Biden stressed the need for action amid a spike in gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough is enough because we know we can do things about this, but for the resistance we\u2019re getting from some sectors of the government and the Congress and the state legislatures and the organizational structures out there. You know, Mayor Adams, you and I agree. The answer is not to abandon our streets. That\u2019s not the answer. The answer is to come together. Police in communities building trust and making us all safer,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer is not to defund the police,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cIt\u2019s to give you the tools, the training, the funding to be partners, to be protectors and community needs you. And know the community. You know police treat everyone with respect and dignity. That\u2019s why I called on the Congress to pass a budget later this year that provides cities like New York and others with an additional $300 million for community policing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/03\/joe-biden-glock-40-rounds-weapon-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden<\/a> did say it\u2019s important to get social workers and mental health workers involved within communities as well to help stem violence and crime, but again reiterated that \u201cwe\u2019re not about defunding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re about funding and providing the additional services you need beyond someone with a gun strapped to their shoulders or hip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to fund community policing to protect and serve the community,\u201d the president said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/22\/joe-biden-defund-police-democratic-party-progressives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018I Am The Democratic Party\u2019: Biden Vows Not To Defund Police, Brushes Off Those In Party Who Disagree)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/01\/joe-biden-defund-police-george-floyd\/?filter_by=popular&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;page=6&amp;ref=hexometer&amp;utm_campaign=targetingUSA&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;wordfence_lh=1&amp;jwsource=cl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stance<\/a> on the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement has remained relatively consistent, with Biden bucking calls to do so. Biden, however, did signal once in 2020 that he would support redirecting tax dollars away from police and toward other social programs and initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/06\/10\/biden-root-out-systemic-racism-not-just-divisive-trump-talk-column\/5327631002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made clear<\/a> he did \u201cnot support defunding police\u201d and rather supported giving \u201cpolice departments the resources they need to implement meaningful reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While on a phone call with civil rights leaders in late 2020, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/10\/biden-defund-police-democrats-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement \u201cbeat the living hell out of us across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Thursday that the answer to rising crime is not to \u201cdefund the police\u201d and that cities should be doing the opposite.While speaking about gun control in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}