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On the recordJune 23, 2021
I know it's hard to believe, but this very day, violent drug offenders will commit more than 100,000 crimes on this day alone. And the sad part is it that we have -- we have no more police in the streets of our major cities than we had 10 years ago. There are people who are saying, by the way, why are these predators on our streets? Why don’t you put them away for a long time? Well, let me define the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is now for 60 new death penalties. That’s what’s in this bill. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is 400,000 cops. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is for 125,000 new state prison cells. It doesn’t matter whether or not they’re the victims of society. The end result is they’re about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, taken on my son’s. So, I don’t want to ask what made them do this. They must be taken off the street.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
msnbc.com

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Biden discusses the need for tough crime policies and increased law enforcement in response to rising crime rates.

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