If Biden's speech was to bolster police, it surely had the opposite effect
President Joe Biden was feeling extra folksy Tuesday night as he laid out his Safer America Plan in Wilkes-Barre, PA, his home-state, waxing reminiscent about his youth in nearby Scranton. And like the quaint simplicity of his boyhood, his remedy for rising violence was "based on a simple notion": just more police and fewer guns. And to let viewers know how seriously he takes the whole crime thing Biden reiterated some version of "I’m not joking" or "I mean it" 16 times in his 35-minute speech.
But he might as well have been joking. Because without rebuilding the rule of law—which includes the entirely omitted elements of prosecution and incarceration—he will neither attract police to fill depleted ranks nor dissuade criminals from owning, carrying, and firing the guns they will still be able to get, even if Biden attains his desired assault weapons ban.
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Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.
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