Political Stances on Police Funding

“(After asked about the logic of defunding police making Americans safer mentioned by other candidates):”They don’t care whether we’re safer or not, they don’t care about reducing crime. What they care about is grievance politics, and vengeful politics against the police. Have there been abuses by police officers across the country? Of course it happened, you and I have seen it, and as prosecutors, we know there are times they have happened. But the fact that matters is the way you fix that is to work with the communities and work with the police to make sure that training gets even better, and that we handle the criminals in this society without any distance between the community and the police.”

“We will never, ever defund our police. OK? That I can tell you. We are not defunding police.”

“This defund the police movement is an outrage and it is getting people killed. Its called the George Floyd effect or the Ferguson effect, and thats the phenomenon of cops all over the country, pulling back because theyve been maligned as engaging in systemic racism Thats the gap between what people think is going on versus what is going on, and its getting people killed because the Democrats pushed this narrative, the media pushes this narrative, and it is a lie.”

“Reducing police budgets hurts the very people who need security the most. #StopTheMadness”

“Some want to defund the police. In Florida, were funding them & then some by providing all of our heroes $1,000 bonuses. This represents more than 174,000 first responders across the state!”

“The woke LA City Council President who wanted to cut police funding after George Floyds death is now caught calling the black child of a white colleague a changuito (monkey). No surprise that the racists & anti-racists share the same toxic views.”