JOE BIDEN/POLICE: “The whole idea of when I wrote that [1994 crime] bill is community policing. Everybody forgets a third of that bill that I wrote was to put more cops in the street, not in their automobiles, but getting out and knowing the community. Knowing who owns the local grocery store, knowing everybody in the community, and crime will drop. The other thing is– they also need help. We– they need more social workers, they need psychologists with them, they need to have the kind of help that in fact allows them to deal with circumstances, where you have someone who is about to jump off a building or someone who is crazed and needs– you have to have people who are– have expertise beyond just the physical support and the physical protection of someone.”
-Joe Biden, “TRANSCRIPT: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris’ first joint interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts,” abcnews.com, Aug. 23, 2020