Bernie Sanders Rejects Left's Call To Defund Police, Proposes the Opposite:
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rejected the calls from progressive Democrats and protesters across the country to abolish police departments.
“Do I think we should not have police departments in America? No, I don’t. There’s no city in the world that does not have police departments,” he told The New Yorker.
“I called for police departments that have well-educated, well-trained, well-paid professionals.”
Sanders said that many police officers around the country don’t have much education or training and that they “take the job at very low payment.”
“I want to change that,” he said.
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“I also called for the transformation of police departments into — understanding that many police departments and cops deal every day with issues of mental illness, deal with issues of addictions, and all kinds of issues which should be dealt with by mental-health professionals or others, and not just by police officers.”
Sanders added that police officers should be given more support to do the jobs they’ve been asked to do.
“Anyone who thinks that we should abolish all police departments in America, I don’t agree,” he said.
Sanders ended his 2020 presidential campaign on April 8 and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden.
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