Biden Says Police Have “Become the Enemy”

@4meAndyou I'm sorry did you see what he said in context? He didn't say police are the enemy. Have a look at the video - if you're fair-minded, in the context of his sentence it's clear his words have been completely twisted. Poor form.

Am I a fan of Biden? Not at all. Are you correct about him potentially shifting his view to capitalise on the moment? Very probably. Although as individuals we can do two things at once: support the police and still criticise corruption or bad behaviour or over-militarisation.

@Abstraction Yes, I saw it and heard it in context. Biden is a sell out, regardless of context. You had best pray he doesn't win. Imagine a world where the Chicom rule, and you are breaking rocks in the gulag, with no more free USA and no more free Australia.

@4meAndyou So he wasn't saying the police are the enemy. The clear intention was to say that: 1) When we militarise the police we make them (seem like) the enemy when they roll into a neighbourhood. It was badly worded, but that's the clear intent. Seriously - no serious presidential candidate would really declare that the police are an enemy to be put down. If we're going to rip phrases out-of-context for Trump or Biden or anyone else, then we're no longer being fair-minded.

2) Defunding the police - Another terrible term, but it isn't eradicating police forces or removing all funding, it's viewing the community through a multi-pronged approach where police don't have to deal with, for example, someone unarmed having mental illness episode being confronted by people without the appropriate training. What's wrong with that?
If Biden was smart - which he isn't - he shouldn't affirm 'defund the police' and should put it in other terms.

@Abstraction You are correct about the context, but very wrong to defend him in any way. I know you are a good human being, and I know you don't want to see the situation in New York City go nationwide. Babies are being killed. Children.

Gang violence in our inner cities is a real problem. I realize that some are completely blind to the fact that when you give way to bullies, you will get more bullying. The same is true with crime.

In NYC criminals are let right out of the courtroom back onto the streets if they can't afford bail. I saw video of one of them, who had been let out of jail more than 10 times...back out on the street...and walked past a 90 year old woman and just PUNCHED her in the head. She fell violently into a fire hydrant.

Our police are being attacked and killed because of this mindset. TWO police officers answered a domestic violence call in Texas, knocked on the door, and were immediately shot dead through the door itself. They didn't have a chance.

Let's pay certain of the police to have mental health training. What's wrong with that? Pay them MORE and train them MORE. Because some little social worker answering that call will have no training in how to handle violence, and will be just as dead.

Biden has joined up with the crazies, and having seen the deaths erupt to crisis level since the death of George Floyd, I want MORE money to train our police BETTER. I do not want to see more idiocy. Idiocy when dealing with gangs and street crime means blood in the streets.

@4meAndyou Agree if there's violence involved it's a police matter.

I was in Seattle and our bus stopped because the police had to arrest someone. Two of them, with guns trained on the guy lying on the ground. Then two more arrived. Only when six of them were there did they make a move to approach him. I thought - imagine your son or brother or husband or father working for the police where at any point, someone can unexpectedly turn a gun on him and shoot. And it's just being at work every day with that risk. I'm incredibly sympathetic to the role they play. It's a tough job.

@Abstraction Knowing the compassion with which you view the world, (based on your book, which I bought), I knew that your compassion would run both ways. I must say I prefer police presence. I am listening to a Philadelphia policeman right now, who says they are like Gotham City without Batman.

Children are being killed, by gang related gunfire in our cities. The gangs are running wild and mob violence is now the rule.