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increasing funding for police departments. “Though Ady would have loved Joe Biden to announce in this interview that he is in favor of defunding the police, the Vice President never said it,” Liz Jaff, the president of Barkan’s Be A Hero political fund, told CNN in July.The exchange between Barkan and Biden is the subject of much back and forth because it’s difficult to grasp what the former vice president explicitly means.
“We can reduce the responsibilities assigned to police and redirect some of the funding into social services, mental health counseling, and affordable housing,” Barkan says in the interview, before prodding Biden with the question, “Are you open to that kind of reform?” “I’ve proposed that kind of reform,” Biden responds. “And by the way, the idea, though — that’s not the same as getting rid of or defunding all the police.
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