Executive Branch - POLITICS
Biden Questions Whether Michigan City's Crime Could Rise Without Federal Help
Published October 12, 2011
| FoxNews.com
Vice President Biden suggested Wednesday that rapes and murders in at least one American city could rise if Congress does not pass a new spending bill to help local governments keep police jobs.
The vice president discussed the relation between crime and police staffing during a stop in Flint, Mich., one of the most violent cities in America. Biden said anyone who doubts the correlation "need look no further than your city."
"Let's look at the facts," Biden said. "In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65 and rapes, just to pick two categories, climbed to 229.
"In 2011, you now only have 125 shields. God only knows what the numbers'll be this year for Flint if we don't rectify it," he said.
It is a typical way of theirs to try to panic the people into passing their agenda. Will Joe go down in history like Spiro Agnew and Dan Quayle as a blubbering idiot?
i wonder if Joe ever spent any time at all in Flint, Detroit, Filthadelphia, or Baltimore. Every one of those cities has a bad side of town and it has been that way for decades, this isn't news, this is a politician attempting to panic the masses in to pressuring their elected officials into approving legislation that will further ruin the economy.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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