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Joe Biden Calls for Increased Law Enforcement Funds Amid Calls to Defund the Police

HeadlineJun 12, 2020

While calls are growing for cities to defund the police, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, is calling for an increase in police funding. In an op-ed in USA Today, Biden called for police departments to receive an additional $300 million to “reinvigorate community policing in our country.” On Wednesday night, Biden discussed police funding on “The Daily Show.”

Joe Biden: “I don’t believe police should be defunded, but I think the conditions should be placed upon them where departments are having to take significant reforms relating to that. We should set up a national use-of-force standard.”

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