Biden Administration Funds Defund The Police Org

[Rightguide]

It's time for Democrats to stop lying about not promoting the defund the police movements:


Federal Government Gives Millions to Group That Supports Defunding the Police
Vera Institute of Justice has received $89 million in contracts and grants this year

Chuck Ross • July 29, 2021 4:59 am

The federal government provides tens of millions of dollars each year to a nonprofit group that supports the movement to defund police departments and dismantle the criminal justice system.

Officials with the Brooklyn-based Vera Institute of Justice have urged the government to "radically dismantle" police departments in order to fix a system they say dehumanizes people of color. The institute is heavily funded by the federal government. So far this fiscal year, the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies have awarded the Vera Institute more than $89 million in contracts and grants. The organization has received $811 million in federal funding since 2008, according to USA Spending, a federal budget database.

Vera’s support for the "defund the police" movement comes amid a contentious political debate over policing in America. Democrats see the issue as a political third rail and have tried to distance the party from anti-police rhetoric popular on the left. While members of the Democratic Party have embraced the defund movement, President Joe Biden claimed this month that Republicans are "lying" when they say Democrats support the concept.

The Vera Institute, which calls itself a "justice reform change agent," also received stipends from traditional progressive donors, such as George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. The billionaire’s philanthropy gave more than $10 million to Vera from 2016 to 2019.

Two top executives at Vera rallied to the defund cause following the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020.

More here:

https://freebeacon.com/politics/fed...-to-group-that-supports-defunding-the-police/

 

[ll74]

It's time for Democrats to stop lying about not promoting the defund the police movements:


Federal Government Gives Millions to Group That Supports Defunding the Police
Vera Institute of Justice has received $89 million in contracts and grants this year

How are these two things related?

 

[Enthrallyaa]

Stop for a moment and think rationally; do you really think that the Biden administration are deliberately seeking to render police enforcement less effective? what will that achieve exactly?

They are seeking to implement a much needed restructuring of how policing and the justice system operates in certain aspects. This of course will cost some money to do.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Stop for a moment and think rationally; do you really think that the Biden administration are deliberately seeking to render police enforcement less effective? what will that achieve exactly?

They are seeking to implement a much needed restructuring of how policing and the justice system operates in certain aspects. This of course will cost some money to do.

A. It will appease the lunatics in the fever swamps of the Left, who demand elimination of the police and prisons.

B. This is pure Machiavelli: Speak soothing words and adopt an avuncular posture in public while acting ruthlessly in private.

 

[pecksniff]

A. It will appease the lunatics in the fever swamps of the Left, who demand elimination of the police and prisons.

B. This is pure Machiavelli: Speak soothing words and adopt an avuncular posture in public while acting ruthlessly in private.

So, on odd-numbered days Biden has senile dementia, and on even-numbered days he's a Machiavellian genius.

 

[ll74]

So, on odd-numbered days Biden has senile dementia, and on even-numbered days he's a Machiavellian genius.

Nice retort.

 

[Rightguide]

How are these two things related?

Biden is a Democrat, Democrats run the federal government. Democrats are trying to say they don't support defunding the police, but they, the Democrat administration, give huge amounts of money to those who do.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

So, on odd-numbered days Biden has senile dementia, and on even-numbered days he's a Machiavellian genius.

No, Biden is demented every day of the week. The Prince does have others who pull those wires for the demented turnip in the Oval Office.

 

[ll74]

Biden is a Democrat, Democrats run the federal government. Democrats are trying to say they don't support defunding the police, but they, the Democrat administration, give huge amounts of money to those who do.

So does that mean that the Trump administration also support Defund the police and GW Bush?

The federal gov't has given grants to the same org back to 2008.

 

[Rightguide]

So, on odd-numbered days Biden has senile dementia, and on even-numbered days he's a Machiavellian genius.

How Machiavellian was his demonic whispering to the media a while back?

 

[Rightguide]

So does that mean that the Trump administration also support Defund the police and GW Bush?

The federal gov't has given grants to the same org back to 2008.

Non sequitur, this isn't about Bush. This is about the here and now, and the imbecilic Joe Biden and his hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of his party.

 

[ll74]

Non sequitur, this isn't about Bush. This is about the here and now, and the imbecilic Joe Biden and his hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of his party.

Got it, so please tell me who, in the Biden administration, was responsible for providing the grants to the organization from 2008 on, and/or who, in the Biden administration, approved the current funding to the organization.

 

[ll74]

Non sequitur, this isn't about Bush. This is about the here and now, and the imbecilic Joe Biden and his hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of his party.

And while you're gathering that info, please also explain the same information from the Trump administration so we can understand why they also supported this organization....unless their position of opposing "Defund the Police" is not at odds with that.....

 

[Rightguide]

Stop for a moment and think rationally; do you really think that the Biden administration are deliberately seeking to render police enforcement less effective? what will that achieve exactly?

They are seeking to implement a much needed restructuring of how policing and the justice system operates in certain aspects. This of course will cost some money to do.

"Two top executives at Vera rallied to the defund cause following the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020.

"Vera is committed to dismantling the current culture of policing and working toward solutions that defund police and shift power to communities," Vera president Nicholas Turner wrote on June 8, 2020.

Turner, who received $420,000 in salary and benefits at Vera in 2019, urged support for "the outrage we’re seeing—in the streets, in our communities, and in the media."

"Now is the time to stop tinkering with police reform and to enact wholesale change," Turner said. "We’re building on this unique moment of public awareness, outrage, and calls to defund the police."

Another Vera officer, Jamila Hodge, said it was "time for us to radically dismantle" the criminal justice system. Writing in June 2020, she said the criminal justice system "dehumanizes and devalues Black people" and is rooted in "our nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy."

https://freebeacon.com/politics/fed...-to-group-that-supports-defunding-the-police/

This organization took 174 million in DOJ grants last year. So it maintains a financial relationship with the federal government.

 

[Rightguide]

And while you're gathering that info, please also explain the same information from the Trump administration so we can understand why they also supported this organization....unless their position of opposing "Defund the Police" is not at odds with that.....

They were supported in 2020 by the same anti-Trump DOJ that exists today. Remember the Defund movement didn't come out into the open until the George Floyd shooting.

 

[Rightguide]

Got it, so please tell me who, in the Biden administration, was responsible for providing the grants to the organization from 2008 on, and/or who, in the Biden administration, approved the current funding to the organization.

You should have read the article:

"Another Vera officer, Jamila Hodge, said it was "time for us to radically dismantle" the criminal justice system. Writing in June 2020, she said the criminal justice system "dehumanizes and devalues Black people" and is rooted in "our nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy."

Vera, which took in $174 million in revenue for the year ended June 30, 2020, receives the bulk of its federal funding to represent illegal aliens and refugees seeking entry to the United States. The Justice Department has awarded Vera grants and contracts through various subagencies, including the Office for Victims of Crime and the Office for Violence Against Women, which provide assistance to crime victims. Other grants have been for research, including $750,000 to conduct a randomized trial on the effect of "innovative" youth housing on crime."

 

[pecksniff]

No, Biden is demented every day of the week. The Prince does have others who pull those wires for the demented turnip in the Oval Office.

Who would those be?

 

[pecksniff]

You should have read the article:

"Another Vera officer, Jamila Hodge, said it was "time for us to radically dismantle" the criminal justice system. Writing in June 2020, she said the criminal justice system "dehumanizes and devalues Black people" and is rooted in "our nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy."

Vera, which took in $174 million in revenue for the year ended June 30, 2020, receives the bulk of its federal funding to represent illegal aliens and refugees seeking entry to the United States. The Justice Department has awarded Vera grants and contracts through various subagencies, including the Office for Victims of Crime and the Office for Violence Against Women, which provide assistance to crime victims. Other grants have been for research, including $750,000 to conduct a randomized trial on the effect of "innovative" youth housing on crime."

All of that makes the organization sound pretty good, and well worth funding. What was your point?

 

[ll74]

They were supported in 2020 by the same anti-Trump DOJ that exists today. Remember the Defund movement didn't come out into the open until the George Floyd shooting.

So Trump funded the same group....got it.

 

[ll74]

You should have read the article:

"Another Vera officer, Jamila Hodge, said it was "time for us to radically dismantle" the criminal justice system. Writing in June 2020, she said the criminal justice system "dehumanizes and devalues Black people" and is rooted in "our nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy."

Vera, which took in $174 million in revenue for the year ended June 30, 2020, receives the bulk of its federal funding to represent illegal aliens and refugees seeking entry to the United States. The Justice Department has awarded Vera grants and contracts through various subagencies, including the Office for Victims of Crime and the Office for Violence Against Women, which provide assistance to crime victims. Other grants have been for research, including $750,000 to conduct a randomized trial on the effect of "innovative" youth housing on crime."

That didn't address how the Biden administration is involved in supporting the funding.

 

[pecksniff]

They were supported in 2020 by the same anti-Trump DOJ that exists today.

The DOJ was not anti-Trump in 2020. It should have been, but it wasn't.

 

[Rightguide]

That didn't address how the Biden administration is involved in supporting the funding.

Read the second paragraph. The have financial relationship with the DOJ.

Read the friggin' headline.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

I hardly ever post threads, I'm a thread killa. I never posted a poll but a poll to see who supports defunding police would be interesting. I know people who want police to be as accountable for their actions as most of us have been while part of the workforce but I don't know anyone who wants to defund police.

 

[ll74]

Read the second paragraph. The have financial relationship with the DOJ.

Read the friggin' headline.

And they've had one since 2008. My question to you was, who, from the Biden administration, has reviewed this funding and given their approval.

 

[ll74]

Read the second paragraph. The have financial relationship with the DOJ.

Read the friggin' headline.

I'd also be curious what action you're asserting that the Biden administration took, in any way, to indicate any preference to this organization. Approving funding to this group seems to have been standard practice for quite some time, and my guess is that any action Biden would make would be for FY2022 budgeting, which I don't believe has even taken place fully.