9/17/2020

JOE BIDEN/POLICE: “As President of the United States, what I will do, I will nationally bring together police chiefs, police officers, the union people, the African-American leadership, the communities, brown communities, the civil rights leaderships, sit at the table and agree on basic fundamental things that are have to be done. Including much more rigorous background checks on those who apply for and become police officers. Two, teaching people how to de-escalate…

There’s bad cops, there’s bad police officers there. I mean, there there’s bad senators, there’s bad congressmen, there’s bad docs, there’s people who aren’t meeting standards in every single solitary profession. And I’m confident, I’m confident the vast majority of the police are prepared to sit down in the White House and a commission like Barack and I started to be able to sit down and lay out with the minimum basic requirements are and what is out of bounds, period. Including the ability for us to be able to go in and look at a pattern and practice with police departments so they’re completely transparent.”

-Joe Biden, “CNN Presidential Town Hall With Joe Biden,” transcripts.cnn.com, Sep. 17, 2020