JOE BIDEN/POLICE: “We shouldn’t be defunding cops, we should be mandating the things that we should be doing within police departments and make sure there’s total transparency.” -Joe Biden, “Read the full transcript of Joe Biden’s ABC News town hall,” abcnews.go.com, Oct. 15, 2020 […]
Tag: defund police
8/23/2020
JOE BIDEN/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Robin Roberts: “President Trump says that you want to defund the police. Do you?”] “No I don’t. By the way, he proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support. Look, what the police need is the police, first of all, there has to be national standards that in […]
8/19/2020
POLICE: “We’re providing $400 million to hire hundreds of new police officers around the country. We will never defund our police, we will always defend our police. This is just crazy. They want to defund. If you look at Seattle, they want to, literally, they’re in the process of terminating, abolishing the police force.” -Donald […]
8/17/2020
2020 ELECTION/POLICE: “[I]f we don’t win this [2020] election, every one of you, me, all of us, it will never be the country … I don’t think the country can ever come back to it. I used to use Venezuela a lot. I don’t know if I even really fully believed it but I’d say, […]
8/11/2020
POLICE: “[W]e should do the opposite of defunding. We should help the police more. They have been taken — their guts have been taken out. And it’s — it’s very sad.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Fox News, “Trump on Kamala Harris: I’m not sure Americans want someone so liberal,” foxnews.com, Aug. 11, 2020 […]
8/11/2020
DEMS/POLICE: “What you’re seeing in Portland and Seattle, New York, Chicago is really the Democrat roadmap for America. They want every city in America to resemble Portland, in a form. They want to pass federal legislation gutting and hamstringing every police department in America. They want to get rid of your Second Amendment. They want […]
7/29/2020
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The radical left wants to tear down everything in its way. And in its place, they want power for themselves. They want power. Hard to believe — power. They want to uproot and demolish every American value. They want to wipe away every trace of religion from national life. They want to […]
7/22/2020
CRIME/DOJ/IMMIGRATION/POLICE/SANCTUARY CITIES: “I’m also announcing that the Department of Justice will provide more than $61 million in grants to hire hundreds of new police officers in cities that are the focus of Operation LeGend. We will never defund the police. We will hire more great police. We want to make law enforcement stronger, not weaker. […]
7/22/2020
CRIME/POLICE: “For decades, politicians running many of our nation’s major cities have put the interests of criminals above the rights of law-abiding citizens. These same politicians have now embraced the far-left movement to break up our police departments, causing violent crime in their cities to spiral — and I mean spiral seriously out of control… […]
7/22/2020
EDUCATION/POLICE: “While others want to defund, defame, and abolish the police, I want to support and honor our great police. While the radicals want to abolish charter schools and eliminate school choice, I want to expand school choice, and every family in America should have that option.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Operation […]
7/17/2020
JOE BIDEN/POLICE: “So, if you look at it, Biden wants to raise your taxes, defund your police, abolish probably your police, which I hate even to say because if you think about it, how ridiculous. But that’s where they’re all heading, abolish the police. That’s not going to happen.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, […]
7/13/2020
POLICE: “In recent weeks, our country’s police officers have been really under siege… But our officers have been under vicious assault, and hundreds of police have been injured and several murdered… Reckless politicians have defamed our law enforcement heroes as ‘the enemy.’ They call them ‘the enemy.’ They actually go and say they’re the enemy, […]
7/10/2020
JOE BIDEN/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Biden wants to defund the police. He wants to call the cops the enemy, which he did the other day leaving every citizen at the mercy of a socialist mob or a mob far worse than socialism was ever meant to be. I’m fighting against this horrible situation. I’m fighting and […]
7/9/2020
POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We need security. We can’t defund our police. And we can’t abolish our police. They want to abolish our police. And as far as the surplus equipment, I have given out hundreds of millions of dollars. This is stuff that was sitting in storage houses all over the country. It wasn’t even […]
6/23/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DEMS/JOE BIDEN/POLICE/RALLY: “[W]e’re not going to take moral lectures from the same left-wing ideologues who oppose school choice, who support deadly sanctuary cities, who want to defund our police — defund and abolish our police. Think of it: Defund and abolish is now their theme. And who preside over the violence and mayhem of […]
6/17/2020
DEMS/POLICE: “[L]et’s see what happens with the Democrats. They want to have, you know, they want to defund — I mean, they literally want to defund our police and frankly, they would abolish our police. If we weren’t here, if we weren’t here to watch it, you would have no police. I don’t know what […]
6/16/2020
CRIME/DOJ/EXECUTIVE ORDER/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I strongly oppose the radical and dangerous efforts to defund, dismantle, and dissolve our police departments, especially now when we’ve achieved the lowest recorded crime rates in recent history. Americans know the truth: Without police, there is chaos; without law, there is anarchy; and without safety, there is catastrophe… Americans want […]
6/12/2020
CRIME/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In recent days, there have been vigorous discussion about how to ensure fairness, equality, and justice for all of our people. Unfortunately, there are some trying to stoke division and to push an extreme agenda, which we won’t go for, that will produce only more poverty, more crime, more suffering. This includes […]
6/10/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/JOE BIDEN/POLICE: “While I do not believe federal dollars should go to police departments violating people’s rights or turning to violence as the first resort, I do not support defunding police. The better answer is to give police departments the resources they need to implement meaningful reforms, and to condition other federal dollars on […]
6/8/2020
JOE BIDEN/POLICE: Joe Biden “does not believe that police should be defunded… Biden supports the urgent need for reform — including funding for public schools, summer programs, and mental health and substance abuse treatment separate from funding for policing — so that officers can focus on the job of policing.” -Andrew Bates, Biden campaign spokesperson, as […]
6/8/2020
CRIME/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There won’t be defunding. There won’t be dismantling of our police. And there’s not going to be any disbanding of our police. Our police have been letting us live in peace. We want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there. And sometimes you’ll see some horrible things, like […]
6/5/2020
JOE BIDEN/PROTESTS: “Biden wants to Defund the Police! RT @RichardGrenell Obama-Biden Justice Department Spokesman calls for defunding the police. This must be widely condemned by the Biden campaign immediately. RT @brianefallon Defund the police“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2020 3:36 pm […]