Did the Trump Administration Eliminate Funding for Community Policing?
Posted on AllSides October 21st, 2020
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Last Thursday night Joe Biden participated in a town hall in Philadelphia, where he answered questions from an audience and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
At one point, Stephanopoulos asked Biden about the 1994 crime bill, or the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a bill primarily co-sponsored by Biden during his time as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that was supposed to address rising crime with policing measures and increased incarceration.
The 1994 bill also established the Office of Community Oriented Police Services, otherwise known as...
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