Joe Biden likes to say he would be able to mitigate the violence going on in Democratic cities right now. BUT His 21st Century Policing Task Force was actually a massive failure.
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Despite Biden’s promise in 2008 to fully fund the COPS program, the Obama-Biden administration slashed funding. COPS funding dropped from $1.55 billion to $792 million.
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Despite being launched in 2014, by May 2016, just 15 police departments out of 18,000 had signed on to the Obama-Biden police reforms initiative. Analysts said it “failed to put muscle behind the rhetoric” and “failed to attack the heart of the problem.”
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Federal aid to state and local law enforcement also fell during the Obama-Biden Administration. Total federal grants to state and local governments from the Justice Department were cut by $833 million.
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