police, nor does chuck schumer. there is a relatively small group of progressive lawmakers who have adopted that slogan. most of the rest of the party considers it a liability. there is a significant overlap between some things that joe biden is for and some things that defund the police crowd are for. for example, he wants to, as part of his anticrime program, crack down on unlicensed gun dealers. he wants to help former felons who are free from incarceration reintegrate into society. he wants to encourage community intervention programs to prevent violence. he s not against other ways of preventing violence. but when it comes to cutting police budgets, reducing the amount of police officers on the street, joe biden is not for that, he s not going to be for that. in fact he s encouraging the opposite with a lot of the money for state and local governments and the men rescue plan, $350 billion, and they re encouraging localities to use that if needed to support police budgets because c