Can Joe 'Crime Bill' Biden lead Democrats seeking to defund police, challenge unions?

Fox News ^ | 06/08/2020 | Liz Peek

[SeekAndFind]

At this moment, even as Democrats demand stricter oversight of cops and call to “defund the police,” Joe Biden, author and promoter of the 1994 crime bill, is their candidate for president. Let that sink in.

The irony is magnificent. For decades, liberals have thundered against the Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act, signed into law by President Clinton with enthusiastic support of his wife Hillary. The legislation, now deemed racist by the Left, toughened sentencing laws, funded the hiring of 100,000 new police officers and designated almost $10 billion for new prison construction.

It passed Congress easily with, as the Clintons have argued, the support of the black community which, at the time, was combating out-of-control violence in their neighborhoods.

And now Biden, who “largely wrote and shepherded [the bill] through the legislative process,” according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center, is the standard-bearer for the party that wants to dismantle every aspect of that law.

That is not the only irony we see today. In addressing the cruel killing of George Floyd, and pushing for more oversight of cops across the nation, Democrats – champions of organized labor – are citing police unions as major hurdles to reform.

In a recent piece, the New York Times says the unions “use their outsize political power” to keep cops from being held accountable and huffs that, “A single New York City police union has spent more than $1 million on state and local races since 2014.”

Unions, the Times reports, stand in the way of getting rid of bad actors. Yes, they do. And we could say the same for the teachers' unions, which do exactly the same, and which gave tens of millions of dollars to Democrats running for office in 2016.

Biden is a big promoter of unions;

[SeekAndFind]

Update (1245ET): A Biden spokesman said on Monday that the former VP "does not believe that police should be defunded. 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..."

Biden's spokesman today says the former VP "does not believe that police should be defunded. 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... " — Robert Costa (@costareports) June 8, 2020

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Biden notably hasn't endorsed the movement - though as another new Democrat slogan goes, "silence equals consent."

[Gene Eric]

Ironically, “the silent majority” permitted this Marxist uprising — took a few decades.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Police Unions are his money partners. I hope Team Trump 2020 can use that to wedge Biden with a barrage of ads.

[Sans-Culotte]

I remember when being a “law and order” candidate meant fighting crime and criminals. Now it means punishing victims.

[hadaclueonce]

Biden is the author of the gun free zone law.
How well does that work?

[knarf]

DON'T EVEN TRY

[A_Former_Democrat]

TAG the SOB with it

His “peeps”

He OWNS IT

[SunkenCiv]

Uncertain -- at how many RPMs can the media spin?

• Biden comes out against defunding police, as movement gains traction
• Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey rejects city council's push to defund police, despite veto-proof majority
• VIDEO: Defund Police Cult Demand Democrat Self-Destruction
• Civil Rights Attorney Leo Terrell: Democratic Party Has Been 'Hijacked By The Extremists
• Mitt Romney Marches Outside The White House: "We Need To Stand Up & Say Black Lives Matter." [Mitt wants to be Biden's VP, may succeed]
• Trump saved DC from the mob: See for yourself. Exclusive pictures you will not see in the DNC media
• CBS Deceptively Edits Barr Interview, Leaving Out Key Details On Violent Riots, Police Oversight
• GoFundMe suspends Candace Owens' campaign to help bar owner in stunning censorship move
• DNC Talking Points/Partisan Media Shills: Politifact: No, George Soros and his foundations do not pay people to protest
• Violent Protesters Follow Cops Home, Start Fires: Report [GA]
• To fight this evil, we have to understand ALL of the radical left's plans
• Sources NYPD Commissioner Resigns Along With 800 Officers
• Trump supporters pumping thousands into AOC's primary opponent's coffers: report
• Warning: Contract Tracers to Quarantine Republican Districts on Election Day

[DoodleDawg]

Can Joe 'Crime Bill' Biden lead Democrats seeking to defund police, challenge unions?

Yes. Next question.

[Liz]

It passed Congress easily, but decades later, "feel-good" liberals have thundered against President Clinton's Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act, signed into law with enthusiastic support of his wife Hillary and co-auhored by Joe Biden. Hillary took to the mic and called Blacks super-predators and demanded they be "brought to heel." The Clinton legislation, now a lefty bugaboo, toughened sentencing laws, funded 100,000 new police officer hires and almost $10 billion for new prison construction.