Anti-Police, Prison Rhetoric Unpopular With Biden, Democrat Lawmakers

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Since the death of George Floyd during the summer of 2020, progressives have pushed for sweeping new changes to policing in the United States, spawning movements like โ€œDefund the Police.โ€ But these movements are far from popular, and President Joe Biden and a wide range of Democratic lawmakers have rejected the rhetoric entirely.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Minn.), a progressive congresswoman elected during the wave of Democratic victories in 2018, made news recently when she defended a proposed bill that would empty federal prisons within 10 years, with no exception for extremely violent offenders, drug lords, or sex traffickers.

The Tlaib-endorsed bill, called the BREATHE Act, asks the Department of Justice to draw up a โ€œroadmap for prison abolition.โ€ The bill demands the โ€œfull decarceration of federal detention facilities within 10 yearsโ€ and โ€œa moratorium on all new federal prison, jail, immigrant, and youth detention construction.โ€

Tlaib and other members of โ€œthe Squad,โ€ a group comprised of young leftist progressives Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), have adamantly pushed for anti-police and anti-prison initiatives.

Following the death of Daunte Wright in 2021, Tlaib called for โ€œno more policing, incarceration, and militarization,โ€ a call that was echoed by Omar and Pressley.

During the height of anti-police protests, many of which devolved into riots, during the summer of 2020, New York Cityโ€™s Democratic mayor Bill DeBlasio proposed a $1 billion cut to the New York Police Departmentโ€™s approximately $6 billion budget.

But New York Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, who was outspoken in her defense of the โ€œDefund the Policeโ€ movement, rejected the proposal.

โ€œDefunding police means defunding police,โ€ Ocasio-Cortez said in a 2020 statement. โ€œIt does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Educationโ€™s budget so the exact same police remain in schools.โ€

After the Democrats saw disappointing returns in the 2020 House elections, some blamed anti-police rhetoric for the failure. But Ocasio-Cortez continued to defend the movement.

By Joseph Lord

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