Some activists are insulted, and also worried, that Joe Biden isn't doing more
for expanding “community policing” initiatives that has stirred anger among some liberal groups, who argue that bigger budgets are misguided as both policy and politics. Community policing has been tried in dozens of cities for decades, with mixed results—Minneapolis, for instance, has receivedof dollars since 2014 for a pilot program, yet tensions remained high even before Floyd’s killing.
As campaign politics, Biden’s proposal was either savvy or a missed opportunity. Defunding police departments polls poorly, and by advocating for more money for cops, Biden may be trying to head off Trump attacks calling the Democrat “anti-police” . Yet playing it sensible and centrist comes with its own risks. “He didn’t have to go full-blown defund,” saysthe cofounder of Black Voters Matter.
Biden’s top aides argue that some activists and the media are oversimplifying their candidate’s agenda, and they claim his list of police reforms wasn’t drawn up with political calculation in mind. “No, it’s leadership,” saysa senior adviser to the Biden campaign. “When he comes out with a policy, he is thinking about how he’s going to implement it and pay for it, and is it going to get to the heart of the issue? He’s not thinking about what plays to the Twitterati.
Right now Biden’s largest, and fraught, law enforcement policy legacy is the 1994 federal crime bill. Back then Senator Biden bragged about letting police lobbyists help write write the legislation, and he talked tough about how “it doesn’t matter whether or not [criminals] were deprived as a youth. It doesn’t matter whether or not they had no background that enabled them to become socialized into the fabric of society.
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