WASHINGTON | 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.
After speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Biden is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in Philadelphia. Then he’s expected to spend a long weekend in Wilmington, Delaware, where he has a home.
After pushing his systemic racism narrative and using race as a tool to gain popularity and destroy the police, he now will do a complete flip to regain popularity. He, as well as our legislature, do not understand that the damage they have done with the vague punitive police reform and race attacks on the police have damaged law enforcement far deeper than defunding. It is now too dangerous to be an officer with the current vague, unworkable, laws and rabid media and prosecutors who want to judge officers from an emotional viewpoint instead of using facts.
What an idiot!!
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