Biden, Democrats, seek to blunt Republican charges of being 'soft on crime'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "Don't tell me you support law enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on the 6th.
45% : He also called for stricter gun control laws.
43% : Elevated crime rates continue to pose a conundrum for elected leaders, law enforcement officials and prosecutors across the country, in Republican and Democratic jurisdictions alike.
41% : While advocates have argued that such initiatives are both fair and effective, Republicans have grown resistant to reformist proposals, even though some in the GOP supported criminal justice reforms enacted by the Trump administration.
40% :The debate on crime is closely tied to the debate on gun control.
39% : Biden's public safety plan calls for $15 billion devoted to state grants to further "criminal justice reforms such as repealing mandatory minimums for non-violent crimes."
34% : In his Wilkes-Barre speech, the president also went on the offensive against Republicans who claim to back law enforcement but have worked to discredit the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S Capitol, during which supporters of then-President Donald Trump assailed members of the Capitol Police.
33% : He calls charges that he is in favor of defunding the police and abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency "a lie."
31% : An architect of the 1994 crime bill, Biden is today caught between a progressive base that favors ideas like decarceration and ending cash bail and a Republican Party that sees any concession to criminal justice reform as Democratic unwillingness to confront crime as a problem purportedly of their own making.

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