Former Vice President Joe Biden has been making the rounds of news and talk shows lately, and tonight he did a virtual interview with Trevor Noah for The Daily Social Distancing Show.  …
“If you were to become president, do you think that there would be a world where defunding the police would be the solution and getting some of these responsibilities away from police forces — police in schools, police handling mental illness, police handling homelessness, etc.?”, who is on the record saying he doesn’t support defunding police, replied, “Well, I think there are a lot of changes that can take place period, without having to defund police completely.
” He went on to note that his daughter is a social worker and said as an example: “The idea that she is gonna respond by herself to a 911 call that says that someone is overdosing or someone has a mental problem and is acting out, the idea of going by themselves is not rational respect. Conversely, cops shouldn’t go alone, cops should go with — “We should change the way in which we deal with all drug abuse,” he said.
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