Even before 9/11, police departments were using federal funds to buy SWAT gear
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In 1994 Clinton started a new grant program under the Justice Department called Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS. For its inaugural year, Clinton and leaders in Congress (most notably Sen. Joe Biden) funded it with $148.4 million. The next year funding jumped to $1.42 billion, and it stayed in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion through 1999. COPS grants were mostly intended to go to police departments to hire new police officers, ostensibly for the purpose of implementing more community-oriented policing strategies.
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The room had a good chuckle.
The next year the Democrats increased funding to the COPS program by $40 million. The following year, with Obama in the White House, the program’s budget increased 250%, to $1.55 billion.
Very good article here. This gets to the root of why I can't in good conscious vote for biden/harris. It also highlights how the democrats have continued to fund these militarized race soldier that are killing us on a daily basis. Shit, I dare anyone to prove me wrong that the democrats have been just as devastating, maybe MORE than the republicans have to the black community, since the 80s due to their crime bills and police funding.
My common sense refuses to allow me to vote for a guy that's spent his whole political career doing things to the detriment of my community.