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June 12, 2020

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