Now Democrats Want To RE-fund The Police

After a year of equivocation on the Democratic Party base’s push to defund police, President Biden was commended by the New York Times for leading “a new crime-fighting agenda.”

“Let’s be honest: Democrats who demonized cops and called for defunding them betrayed complete contempt for public safety,” the Post board said. “No, Biden himself didn’t scream for defunding, but he refused to condemn those who did. Instead his campaign insisted Joe ‘hears and shares the deep grief and frustration of those calling out for change.'”

The Times wrote that Democrats are now “rallying with sudden confidence around a politically potent cause: funding the police.”

The Post offered a “translation,” concluding it means Democrats now realize “voters may hold them responsible for the damage caused by their irresponsible actions.”

And the White House acknowledges “homicides rose 30 percent and gun assaults rose 8 percent in large cities in 2020.”

Crime data shows the number of homicides in six major Democratic Party-run cities across the country has increased compared to last year, disproportionately affecting black people, according to an analysis by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In response, Biden is now urging cities to use some of the $1.9 trillion set aside for “COVID relief” to help fund police.

Nevertheless, the Democrats’ far-left faction in Congress is still in defund mode.

After Biden announced his plan Thursday to curb gun violence, New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay admitted there’s been a spike in gun violence in large cities. But she attributed it to trauma, grief, homelessness “and just general upheaval that the United States has gone through.”