{"id":588438,"date":"2021-07-11T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T22:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588438"},"modified":"2021-07-11T18:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T22:20:44","slug":"watch-kamala-dodges-questions-on-if-administration-should-be-paying-for-more-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-dodges-questions-on-if-administration-should-be-paying-for-more-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Kamala Dodges Questions On If Administration Should Be \u2018Paying For More Police Officers\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-kamala-dodges-questions-on-if-administration-should-be-paying-for-more-police-officers%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=588438&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Kamala-Harris-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer a question during an interview on Saturday whether more funding was needed for police departments as they combat a surge in violent crime across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by left-wing journalist Soledad O\u2019Brien how the administration was trying to balance fighting crime while reforming policing, Harris responded: \u201cI\u2019d say that we should not be offered and certainly not accept a false choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris said that laws needed to be passed to hold police accountable \u201cfor police officers who break the rules or break the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also need to on the broader issue, understand this and this is what I put in the context of saying we should reimagine how we think about public safety,\u201d Harris continued. \u201cThere are certain communities for which we see a big police presence. And other communities, we don\u2019t see a big police presence. But you know, what you see in those communities? Well funded schools, high rates of homeownership, small businesses that have access to capital, people who have access to health care, including mental health care, and it\u2019s affordable and available. And in those communities, you don\u2019t see a large police presence, let\u2019s understand what makes for a healthy community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While she continued to list off things that she believes the government should provide people, O\u2019Brien asked, \u201cWhile also paying for more police officers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think that listen, there\u2019s no question that we need to agree that if a woman is raped, if a child is molested, if one human being kills another human being, there needs to be consequences,\u201d Harris said. \u201cWe want that there will be a police officer there to take that report. I don\u2019t think we can accept a false choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to understand that while we want that we have under resourced, our public education system, our health care system, our system that should be about supporting, you know, entrepreneurs in every community with a particular emphasis on low income communities, on black and brown communities,\u201d she continued. \u201cThat\u2019s the work that needs to happen. And we\u2019ve not done that. And if you want to really deal with the issue of how you support healthy communities that can thrive, you got to make sure that communities have the basic resources that anybody needs to be successful. And we\u2019ve not done a good job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, Harris did not answer O\u2019Brien\u2019s question about \u201cpaying for more police officers.\u201d Harris only referenced things that are already serious crimes in the U.S. as she then deflected into talking about needing to provide resources for certain communities.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vice President Kamala Harris Answers Questions About COVID-19 Vaccine &amp; More | State Of Our Union\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bH_mjDE3sko?start=638&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"77\">\n<p><em>SOLEDAD O\u2019BRIEN: I want to turn to talk about crime and policing. Crime is down in every category, I was surprised to read, except for the big one, which is homicide, gun violence up. The administration is proposed using federal funds, the money from the American Rescue Plan, to really fund police departments. At the same time, there have been many calls, as you will know, about defunding police or taking money from police department budgets and using them, you know, for example, to help with mental health issues. So, to fund something else. How do juggle those two things? How do you both reform the police, make policing different at the same time, give money to police departments?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KAMALA HARRIS: Yeah. Well, first, I\u2019d say that we should not be offered and certainly not accept a false choice. Like when we\u2019re talking about gun violence, we need to deal with that. So as an administration, we\u2019re saying, for example, the firearms dealers, that those who are violating law, there needs to be a consequence for that, on the issue of policing, we need accountability. And we are, and I was actually one of the original authors of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. And I feel very strongly that needs to be passed, there needs to be accountability for police officers who break the rules or break the laws. We need to have a ban on chokeholds, we need to deal with accountability in terms of legal accountability. So all of those things need to happen. We also need to on the broader issue, understand this and this is what I put in the context of saying we should reimagine how we think about public safety. There are certain communities for which we see a big police presence. And other communities, we don\u2019t see a big police presence. But you know, what you see in those communities? Well funded schools, high rates of homeownership, small businesses that have access to capital, people who have access to health care, including mental health care, and it\u2019s affordable and available. And in those communities, you don\u2019t see a large police presence, let\u2019s understand what makes for a healthy community. And it includes the resources that everybody needs every day. And in that way, when I think about what we need to do to be smart and achieving public safety, let\u2019s provide access to capital for small businesses and communities. Let\u2019s make sure that our schools are well funded, and our teachers are well paid in public schools. Instead of what\u2019s happening now, which is over 90% of public school teachers have to come out of their own pocket to help pay for school supplies. Let\u2019s deal with access to health care, including mental health care. Let\u2019s include creating incentives for homeownership, financial incentives, which is part of a policy that I\u2019ve been advocating for years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O\u2019BRIEN: While also paying for more police officers?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HARRIS: Well, I think that listen, there\u2019s no question that we need to agree that if a woman is raped, if a child is molested, if one human being kills another human being, there needs to be consequences. We want that there will be a police officer there to take that report. I don\u2019t think we can accept a false choice. We have to understand that while we want that we have under resourced, our public education system, our health care system, our system that should be about supporting, you know, entrepreneurs in every community with a particular emphasis on low income communities, on black and brown communities. That\u2019s the work that needs to happen. And we\u2019ve not done that. And if you want to really deal with the issue of how you support healthy communities that can thrive, you got to make sure that communities have the basic resources that anybody needs to be successful. And we\u2019ve not done a good job of that.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer a question during an interview on Saturday whether more funding was needed for police departments as they combat a surge in violent crime &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314442,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Kamala-Harris-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Kamala Dodges Questions On If Administration Should Be \u2018Paying For More Police Officers\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Kamala-Harris-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Kamala Dodges Questions On If Administration Should Be \u2018Paying For More Police Officers\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588438","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=588438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}