President Trump has a hard-line position on policing. Joe Biden urges reforms to limit the use of force but rejects calls to 'defund' police departments.
How to reshape the nation’s police forces has become a major campaign issue. President Trump hopes to portray Joe Biden as extreme.Biden’s trajectory as on criminal justice is in many ways the story of the issue’s evolution inside the Democratic Party over the last few decades.
That was then. Today, violent crime rates have dramatically fallen, and activists including those in the Black Lives Matter movement have spent the last decade dragging the Democratic Party back to the left on criminal justice, leaving career Democrats like Biden — and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor — on the defensive to explain their records.
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