That's The Sound Of The Police, Con't

To make it extremely and unequivocally clear that "defund the police" has zero place in the Biden administration, and that Biden actually does care about community police alternatives and mental health programs to prevent violence, the White House says  "Why not throw the kitchen sink at it?" with a $37 billion crime bill proposal unveiled today.

President Joe Biden is proposing to spend roughly $37 billion for fighting and preventing crime, including $13 billion to help communities hire and train 100,000 police officers over five years.

Biden will outline his anti-crime program on Thursday during a visit to Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Democratic president will request the money from Congress as part of his latest budget proposal, according to senior administration officials who previewed the plan on the condition of anonymity ahead of the formal announcement.

Republicans are trying to gain leverage in November’s midterm elections by portraying Democrats as unwilling to confront crime problems.

As part of Biden’s plans, $3 billion would be geared toward clearing court backlogs and resolving cases involving murders and guns. The president also wants to use $15 billion to create a grant program that would fund ideas for preventing violent crime or creating a public health response to nonviolence incidents, aimed at reducing the burden on law enforcement.

The remaining $5 billion would support programs intended to stop violence before it occurs.

 

So, a holistic response to helping communities that need policing and helping communities that need mental health programs too, gosh that sounds like a reasonable, measured response that addresses both issues.

Not thrilled about 100,000 more cops in the country but we're always going to need police, they just need drastic reform from the ground up including intense federal oversight is all.

Now, if we purged all the Punisher sticker, Thin Blue Line, violent racist asshole cops and then retrained the rest and then added properly trained non-asshole cops, great.

My expectations are that we only get the cops and none of the other programs however.