Just fucking train them better and weed out the psychos before you hand them a gun...simply increasing training and doing bettre behavioral and background checks is a huge start. But the "we need to fund" the police is basically syaing let's increase their budgets.
In other words, I am not going to fix the problem.... I am going to make it grow even bigger...
dumbasses.
I disagree. I think Biden is talking about some very issues that are unique to American policing. The police in America are overly relied on for mental health services and social services. Or at least they are the first point of contact and have to deal with it. This is a problem.
Police are trained to police and in America police are trained to police in a country where anyone can have a gun. So these situations can turn bad and eat up resources that should be focused on stopping crime and building safe communities (yes, building safe communities is a part of policing).
Bringing in funds dedicated for mental health issues and social service issues will help ensure those matters are handled better, ie cops don’t shoot someone in a mental health crisis or people who are something like domestic violence victims can get immediate services and coordinate with police to make sure victim isn’t revictimized.
In short, more funding for the police doesn’t always translate to more police.