Defunding the police is not the solution to tackle gun violence and violent crimes that are rising in New York City and major cities in the country, President Joe Biden said Thursday.
Thursday that defunding the police is not the solution to rising gun violence, as he met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams following the fatal shooting of two police officers last month and attempted to distance himself from the anti-police rhetoric, backed by some Democrats, that arose out of the 2020 George Floyd protests. ...
Biden told Adams, a former police officer, they were in agreement that “the answer is not to abandon our streets. That’s not the answer, the answer is to come together.”
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