Joe Biden Opposes Defunding Police, Pushes For Reform
On Monday, Joe Biden’s campaign for president said that the former vice president does not support defunding police, saying instead that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee supports the “urgent need for reform.”
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“As his criminal justice proposal made clear months ago, Vice President Biden does not believe that police should be defunded,” Biden campaign Rapid Response Director Andrew Bates said in a statement Monday. “He hears and shares the deep grief and frustration of those calling out for change, and is driven to ensure that justice is done and that we put a stop to this terrible pain.”
Bates went on to explain that Biden supports “the urgent need for reform,” which he said includes “funding for public schools, summer programs, and mental health and substance abuse treatment separate from funding for policing — so that officers can focus on the job of policing.”
As we previously reported, calls to defund police have grown amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, who died last month after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest.
Over the weekend, a majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the local police department and replace the office with what members have said will be a new model of public safety.
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