President Joe Biden told a group of U.S. mayors that police should let psychologists handle domestic violence cases, but reiterated he doesn’t want to defund the police.
“You know when a cop turns up in a domestic violence case, or someone’s standing on an edge of a bridge, they don’t need a cop. They need a psychologist with them,” the president said at a White House event on Friday.
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BIDEN: “You know when a cop turns up in a domestic violence case, or someone’s standing on an edge of a bridge, they don’t need a cop. They need a psychologist” pic.twitter.com/yipZ2xoVhQ
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He went on to explain that the “answer is not to defund the police.”
“They need funding and they need ancillary help as well,” he added.
Biden covered a variety of public safety issues at the annual meeting of U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
The president shared his thoughts on use of force by police.
“When I was coming up as a kid, cops were required to learn to shoot to kill. Well, you ought to be able to shoot to stop,” he told the crowd.
Biden: “When I was coming up as a kid, cops were required to learn to shoot to kill. Well, you outta be able to shoot to stop.” pic.twitter.com/UIYtm23nJi
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 20, 2023
Earlier in the week, Biden had made similar comments about deadly force at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network event on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
“We need emphasize deescalation. We need to retrain cops. Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don’t have to do that,” he said on Monday.
He went on to encourage a “fresh approach to how we recruit, how we hire, how we promote and how we retain” law enforcement.
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Law enforcement groups in October 2020 blasted the then-presidential candidate for suggesting during an ABC News town hall that police should be trained to shoot suspects “in the leg” in order to avoid fatalities. Police called the proposal dangerous and ignorant.
“Former VP Joe Biden’s suggestion that cops should “shoot someone in the leg” if they’re coming at them is insulting and demonstrates his incompetence & inability to understand the grave dangers cops face as they protect the public and themselves from violent, heartless criminals,” the Detectives’ Endowment Association responded on Twitter.
