"Since the last election the moderates have been moving away from it," state Sen. Jabari Brisport told The Post. Brisport, a self-proclaimed socialist, warned that embracing cops would bring consequences from his perennially restive comrades.
"I think hiring more cops after we just saw the largest protest our nation has ever seen against police violence is extremely tone deaf and does not build the base and will probably hurt us in the 2022 elections," Brisport insisted.
During the 2020 summer of violence, defund the police became a battle cry for Democrats from coast to coast. In New York, the City Council passed a budget slashing a billion dollars from the NYPD. Its undercover anti-crime unit was disbanded. Lefty Minneapolis lawmakers moved to completely defund their department and (promptly backed down in the wake of a crime surge).
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President Biden has always personally expressed his reservation with defunding the police and in recent days his White House has moved aggressively to get the idea dead and buried ahead of the 2022 midterms.
"It’s not a winning issue and Democrats are by and large not going to campaign on it," a House Democratic insider told The Post. "There’s what the activists want us to do and what we’re actually doing and we’re going to run campaigns based on what we’re actually doing."
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In a Monday memo, Biden’s team urged state and local leaders to use some of their $350 billion in pandemic relief aid to "put more police officers on the beat" and suggested that cops should be hired "above pre-pandemic levels" in areas experiencing a surge in gun crime.
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In June, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki touted the beefed up police funding in the American Rescue Plan.
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That was "voted into law by Democrats just a couple of months ago. Some might say that the other party was for defunding the police," Psaki stated.
The national Movement for Black Lives denounced the funding in a statement as "immoral" and a "slap in the face to the millions of Black, Brown, Asian, and LGBTQ+ people who voted this administration into office."
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"Joe Biden wants to hire more police officers because he is the same segregationist that fought for the Crime Bill. He never cared about us. Kamala Harris’ job was to arrest us and put us in jail," noted Hawk Newsome, a former Black Lives Matter leader in New York City. "They have deceived us once again."
The statement made by the national field director of Movement for Black Lives was later removed from the website.
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