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Home Front: Politix
Biden to push cities to hire more cops and to use $10 billion from his American Rescue Plan to fight crime as violence surges across US
2022-05-14
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • President Joe Biden will push cities to hire more cops and fund crime prevention programs amid a surge in violence across the U.S.He also will brag about the $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan being used to prop up communities when he meets with mayors and police chiefs

  • The timing of Biden's remarks is tied to the summer season, when there has historically been more violent crime compared to winter months

  • Crime also expected to be major issue in November's midterm election

  • Voters give Biden low marks on his handling of crime

Posted by:Skidmark

#11  Fund sheriff departments not police departments. Sheriffs are elected and responsible to the public. Police chiefs are appointed and loyal to their political masters
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300   2022-05-14 17:01  

#10  Spring, summer youth will play and wreck havoc as long as they wish. The cat is out of the bag.
Posted by: Dale   2022-05-14 14:40  

#9  Cousin Vinny's paper products is infrastructure.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-05-14 12:05  

#8  Was the original funding legally tied to Covid? How does he just re-purpose for Mid-term election mitigation?
Posted by: Frank G   2022-05-14 12:01  

#7  If he really wanted law and order he could start at Alito's house, then move on the Kavanaugh and then arrest Fauxi for treason.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-05-14 11:51  

#6  Don't worry, folks.

Money will be diverted to new bike paths, pavilions and sensitivity training.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-05-14 10:53  

#5  Cheaper than new bridges.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-05-14 10:40  

#4  If money solved all problems, we'd have borrowed ourselves up past Heaven by now...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-14 08:48  

#3  ^

As long as you have prosecutors going after police for talking meanly to perps and not the sociopaths among us, no amount of money will entice them to stick their necks out.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-14 08:46  

#2  More money is always the Washington answer. Nothing at all to do with the liberal, communist judges and prosecutors they'd installed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-14 07:11  

#1  
I guess we could use this as an example of Political Bi-polar thinking.

DEFUND The Police
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-05-14 07:08  

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