{"id":1654274,"date":"2022-09-23T06:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1654274"},"modified":"2022-09-23T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:05:52","slug":"house-democrats-pass-police-funding-bills-amid-crime-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-pass-police-funding-bills-amid-crime-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Pass Police Funding Bills Amid Crime Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fhouse-democrats-pass-police-funding-bills-amid-crime-crisis%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=1654274&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--><p>House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-democrats\">Democrats<\/a> passed\u00a0a package of bills on Thursday aimed at bolstering police funding and public safety after Republican lawmakers accused them of being soft on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-crime\">crime<\/a> amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/new-orleans-becomes-murder-capital-of-us-homicides-up-nearly-50-percent_4741900.html\">surge in\u00a0violent crime across the United States.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers voted to pass four bills\u00a0as part of the package: the Mental Health Justice Act of 2022, the Invest to Protect Act of 2022, the Break the Cycle of Violence Act, and the VICTIM Act of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1368\">Mental Health Justice Act<\/a> of 2022,\u00a0sponsored by\u00a0Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), creates a grant program for states and local governments\u00a0to train and dispatch mental health professionals to respond to emergencies involving behavioral health, as opposed to police.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/6448\">Invest to Protect Act<\/a> of 2022,\u00a0sponsored by moderate Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), raises funding for smaller police departments that employ fewer than\u00a0200 law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/4118\">Break the Cycle of Violence Act<\/a>,\u00a0sponsored by\u00a0Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), provides grants to fund community violence intervention initiatives in areas with higher rates of\u00a0homicides and community violence.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), who introduced the\u00a0VICTIM Act, called its passing a \u201cmajor win for America\u2019s public safety,\u201d and said it\u00a0passed the U.S. House with support from Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The bill provides funding to local police departments to hire victim support personnel along with investigators to aid in solving unsolved homicides\u00a0and violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the legislation <a href=\"https:\/\/demings.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-demings-introduces-victim-act\">would<\/a> \u201cestablish a Department of Justice grant program to hire, train, and retain detectives and victim services personnel to investigate shootings and support victims,\u201d\u00a0Demings said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/demings.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-demings-police-funding-bill-passes-house-representatives\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/07\/US-capitol-GettyImages-1242348477-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Aug. 6, 2022. (Anna Rose Layden\/Getty Images) \u2018Huge Win for Safety of American Communities\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal life is different from television. Half of gun murders in the United States go unsolved, and victims are often left with no justice and little support,\u201d said Demings,\u00a0the first female chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats passed\u00a0a package of bills on Thursday aimed at bolstering police funding and public safety after Republican lawmakers accused them of being soft on crime amid a surge in\u00a0violent crime across the United States. 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