Former NYPD commissioner: ‘Money is not the answer to the immediate problem’ plaguing police departments
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Former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly argued that “money is not the answer to the immediate problem” plaguing police departments across the country.
The president and Attorney General Merrick Garland met with fellow Democrats New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul at the NYPD headquarters Thursday to discuss ways federal, state and local law enforcement officials can work together to quickly take shooters off the streets and combat gun violence.
The president’s trip to New York City on Thursday came after thousands of uniformed police officers from across the nation traveled to Manhattan to pay their respects to fallen NYPD Detectives Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora, who were shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call last month.
"The answer is not to defund the police. It is to give you the tools, the training, the funding to be partners, to be protectors," Biden said on Thursday.