tantalus,
he doesn't -- he's a moderate and was a co-author of the 1994 crime bill. however, he also realizes that times have changed since 1994 and that Blacks now wield political power more effectively within the Dem coalition, so his policies reflect this as well.
so now he's saying:
that's immensely different from what the GOP proposes. under AG Sessions' previous direction, police departments are once again getting military equipment and DOJ has been instructed to pull back on police investigations and civil rights lawsuits.
BTW, what I find to be amusing is that police departments all over America are being defunded -right now- because the GOP refuses to release emergency aid money to states for the pandemic.
I am not sure Biden actually believes there is seismic police reform needed. I would be interested to get your opinion/guess in how biden thinks about this differently from the bulk of the republicans on a policy level...
so now he's saying:
"Reform means, at least the beginning, banning chokeholds, stopping transferring military weapons of war to the police departments, creating a model use of force standard and holding all police to the high standard," said Biden.
"[In] my first 100 days I'm going to create a national police oversight commission with civil rights leaders, police officers, police chiefs and experts in the criminal justice and police to do police reform, get every police department in the country to fully review their hiring training and de-escalation practices,"
"[In] my first 100 days I'm going to create a national police oversight commission with civil rights leaders, police officers, police chiefs and experts in the criminal justice and police to do police reform, get every police department in the country to fully review their hiring training and de-escalation practices,"
BTW, what I find to be amusing is that police departments all over America are being defunded -right now- because the GOP refuses to release emergency aid money to states for the pandemic.
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