Joe Biden Calls For Defunding The Police

briana taylor was only 26 and had decades of hopes and dreams ahead of her but america's commitment to white supremacy stole away those relationships and those futures the leaders of the movement for black lives believe that we have been trying to reform police departments for many decades and it is not working instead they believe that the solution is to reduce the number of interactions that civilians have with the police we can reduce the responsibilities assigned to the police and redirect some of the funding for police into social services mental health counselling and affordable housing so for example instead of sending two police officers with deadly weapons to that wendy's drive-through in atlanta we could have sent a wellness counselor and a tow truck and then razard brooks would still be alive today and his three daughters would still have their daddy are you open to that kind of reform yes i propose that kind of reform we need significantly more help that's why i call for significant increase in funding for mental health clinics and mental health providers we are desperately in need of that now one of the things i've been pushing for in our administration we put together the ability and the bill that i wrote to make sure that we can look at pattern and practice of police departments go in and get all the records and find out what they're doing that's why we're able to stop the stop and frisk in camden now stop and frisk in new york city and the rest where the federal government is right to go in and change systemically what's going on there's a whole range of things that we can do the idea of no knock warrants for drug cases is bizarre we don't need that it's it's just it just invites trouble that's how brianna was killed there's a need for fundamental change in us being able to have transparency be able to have access to the records of police when they have misconduct charges against them to be able to know where they are so they can't go from one police department to the next that should be held in my administration that information will have to be made available to the justice department and held in a file so you'll be able to track this as surplus military equipment for law enforcement they don't need that the last thing you need is an up armored humvee coming into a neighborhood it's like the military invading they don't know anybody they become the enemy they're supposed to protecting these people so my generic point is do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding yes absolutely and one of the things that we also need to be doing is fundamentally changing the way and i've been pushing it for years changing the way we deal with our prison system it should be a rehabilitation system not a punishment system we're going to make sure you're qualified for every single right you had before you went to prison if you served your time and that means that you're entitled to pell grants to go to school you're entitled to job training programs you're entitled housing grant you're entitled to every federal program out there one