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Biden's Law-and-Order Speech in Pennsylvania Was Deeply Dishonest
Newsweek ^ | 9/1/22 | JOHN R. LOTT, JR.

Posted on 09/01/2022 12:04:37 PM PDT by conservative98

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to attempt to "flip the script" on Republicans with a law-and-order campaign message. The theme of Biden's speech was that "the answer is not to defund our police departments—it's to fund our police."

Biden's speech certainly involved a lot of flipping. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden was asked whether he supported "redirect[ing] some of the funding for police into social services." At the time, he responded, "Yes, I proposed that kind of reform."

In Biden's three previous speeches on violent crime, his focus has almost exclusively been on gun control. He certainly didn't say anything pro-police in those speeches. Biden mentioned police only four times—twice in connection with enforcing gun control. And he dabbled in gun control inaccuracies on Tuesday, too, including his constant referencing of AR-style semiautomatic rifles as "weapons of war" when even the Associated Press' influential Stylebook makes clear that AR-style semiautomatic rifles are not weapons used by any military.

Adding police can be an important step in reducing crime. The $13 billion spent on hiring and training more police may be small compared to the $80 billion that Biden is going to spend on hiring 87,000 new IRS agents, but it could make a big difference if it is actually spent on hiring new officers.

But in many Democrat-controlled cities, the problem starts with the district attorneys.

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It isn't complicated why crime has increased in America in recent years. Failing to convict or incarcerate criminals, while also making policing more difficult, will inevitably lead to more crime. Biden has no idea what it means to be tough on crime.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenvoters; crime; dementiajoe; johnlott; police
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To: conservative98

Biden’s Law-and-Order Speech Was Deeply Dishonest.

HE’S A DEMOCRAT HELLO


21 posted on 09/01/2022 2:43:04 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: conservative98
Yet the liar and depraved Alzheimer's patient wants to lecture America about it's soul. It's like society is a perverse Disney Land for this loser.
22 posted on 09/01/2022 2:45:54 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: EEGator

Yea he knows, he’s just that good at it, a lifetime of grifting..Clinton style..


23 posted on 09/01/2022 6:30:48 PM PDT by aces (and )
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To: Texas resident

To the horror of the world it is waking up to realize Joe and associated snake pit is working with Xi and putin and are in deed mass murderers, this is a war plan against us, they must make sure maga,ie, normal Americans never get power again because we will know they are traitors and deal with them..
World wide khabhuli, expect raw hell, we know what’s coming..

Sorry can’t help it

Swamp thing at Mar_A_Lago

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24 posted on 09/01/2022 6:35:30 PM PDT by aces (and )
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