Ep. 592 - Stop Calling Joe Biden Your Damn Uncle

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday Joe Biden announced that he's asking Congress for $32 BILLION more for American police in the name of fighting crime, but here's the thing, they don't need even $1 more. They are swimming in money from coast to coast. The NYPD alone has an annual budget over $10 billion - which is more than most countries spend on their entire military.

And here's the thing - America's safest neighborhoods and safest cities are NOT safe because they are swarming with police. They are safe because they have great jobs, great wealth, great homes, great schools, great health, and treatment for drugs and mental illness.

So PLEASE stop calling this man your uncle. While he REFUSES to prosecute serious cases of police violence, he's about to pour more money into oppression than any president in the history of this nation.

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0:00.0	Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he is asking Congress for $32 billion dollars more
0:11.2	to fund American police and outrageous requests.
0:16.8	Money that police do not need, they are the most heavily funded departments in the entire
0:22.7	world.
0:23.7	And it's all in the name of fighting crime and reducing crime.
0:30.0	Let me try to unpack and explain why this is going to fail, even if they get all the
0:36.2	money, why it's not going to work, and why it's actually going to make things very
0:42.1	dangerous, particularly in black and brown neighborhoods in America's biggest cities.
0:48.1	I'll unpack and explain it.
0:49.6	This is Sean King and you are listening to...
0:52.7	The Breakdown.
1:11.5	For years on this podcast and before we even started the Breakdown podcast, you've probably
1:17.9	heard me call Joe Biden the father of mass incarceration.
1:22.1	And indeed, he is the modern day father of mass incarceration.
1:27.8	The policies that I've written about this in a great length and I've done podcast episodes
1:32.8	about it as well.
1:34.2	So I won't get into the weeds on all the laws that he fought for, passed, and bragged
1:41.5	about that really built the modern state of mass incarceration in America, primarily
1:51.1	offering cities, counties, and states more money if they incarcerated more people for
1:58.7	more crimes, particularly drug crimes, and mass incarceration exploded under the watchful
2:08.1	live Joe Biden.
2:12.0	So it is not at all surprising that the modern father of mass incarceration, looking at
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