Liberal groups press Biden to adopt progressive policies on police reform
By Jonathan Easley - 06/16/20 12:09 PM EDT
About 50 liberal groups have signed on to a letter warning presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden that he could lose the November election to President Trump if he doesn’t adopt more progressive policing policies.
The letter, which is signed by leading national progressive groups, including the Working Families Party, Our Revolution and Black Voters Matter, urges Biden to adopt a 21-page policy proposal released by The Movement for Black Lives to promote reducing incarceration and scaling back police forces across the country.
The groups are also asking Biden to drop his recent proposal to add $300 million in funding for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, which would hire and train additional police officers to patrol within the communities where they live.
“We make these demands first and foremost because we seek justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor — as well as all the other Black lives lost — and policies like these are what justice looks like in practice,†the letter says.
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