 We have predators on our streets. How can he really be a progressive and want to lock these people up? And I'd say lock the SOBs up. Increase the penalties. Increase them. I would put the son of a gun in jail. Put them to death. I wish I could say that hate began with Donald Trump who will end with him. It didn't and it won't. During a week of protests, looting and violence ignited by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Joe Biden pledged his support for meaningful criminal justice reform and doing more to prevent the mistreatment of African Americans by cops. I call on the Congress to act this month on measures that will be the first step in this direction. Starting with real police reform. While Biden deserves praise for getting behind vital reforms as he campaigns for president in 2020, it's worth remembering that the former senator from Delaware is partly responsible for some of the worst aspects of today's criminal justice system. It doesn't matter whether or not they're the victims of society. The end result is they're about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, take on my sons. So I don't want to ask, what made them do this? They must be taken off the street. There are other measures to stop transferring weapons of war to police forces, improve oversight and accountability. Let the FBI agents buy weapons as powerful as the drug cartels had to get beat up. The president might also want to open the U.S. Constitution once in a while. If he did, he'd find a thing called the First Amendment. There's a thing called the First Amendment, which is read in a way that I think is a little excessive. From the crack epidemic of the 80s to the crime wave of the 90s to the post-911 war on terror, throughout his career, Biden has represented the Democratic Party consensus, shifting his views to fit whatever best serves his own political career. Over his 44 years in the Senate and then as vice president, Biden was a leading architect of today's criminal justice system, which contributed to mass incarceration and the police misconduct that protesters are fighting back against today. He wanted to remove judicial discretion for those who, quote, don't meet the middle-class criteria of susceptibility to rehabilitation. They are beyond the pale, many of those people. They literally have not been socialized. They are in jail, away from my mother, your husband, our families. The Biden-Therman Violent Crime Control Act of 1991 would have increased the maximum sentence for 44 crimes to include the death penalty. A wag in the newspaper recently wrote, Biden has made it a death penalty offense for everything but jaywalking. Republicans won up Biden by adding 46 capital crimes. I'm going to make it for 46 crimes. Biden says make it for 51. We're going to get tough. So he proposed 53. Then he presented the final version of the legislation. 60 new death penalties, brand new, 60. There are 70 additional enhancements of penalties, i.e. you go to jail longer. After his disastrous 1987 presidential campaign, Biden had staged his political comeback, in part by becoming a media darling on issues of policing and crime. And he led the fight to pass the landmark 1994 crime bill under Bill Clinton. When I wrote the original bill that started this whole process, the so-called Biden crime bill, I didn't call a liberal comm fab and write it. I didn't call any big society people and write it. I call the cops. A democratic president wants 100,000 cops. That's the secret. That somehow the Republicans tried to make the crime bill tougher. I say poppycock. They didn't make anything tougher. I wrote that bill. He convinced Republicans to support urban community programs as a way to keep inner city kids away from respectable families. They started looking at it and found out that this midnight basketball and get them together a bunch of giant folks who are black, white, and Hispanic, who live in inner city to do, you know, try to see if they can be Michael Jordan. When they found out that we're keeping schools open so gangs come off streets instead of out raping my mother, marauding me, robbing the local store. They're in a gymnasium and my daughter will be safer. My wife will be safer. My mother will be safer and I will be safer and I will be happy. Never again should Washington put politics and party above law and order. Along with several laws passed in the 80s, the 1994 crime bill drove up the local, state, and federal prison populations and it tarnished the reputations of Biden and Bill Clinton, who signed it into law. When Biden ran for president in 2008, he told the New York Times that he knew more people would be locked up across the board but that it would drive down crime. In fact, crime rates were already falling when Biden pushed for the passage of the 94 crime bill and they have continued falling as the prison population has declined in recent years. You ashamed of that bill? Not at all. In fact, I drafted the bill. We had enormous success. The mass incarceration created by Biden's lock him up policies ripped apart vulnerable communities and families for a generation and the federal funding streams and law enforcement infrastructure it created continue to hinder reform efforts. There are things I would change but by and large what it really did it restored American cities. The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a break. No, no. I have no empathy for it. Give me a break because here's the deal guys. We decided we were going to change the world and we did. We did. We finished the civil rights movement to the first stage. The women's room came to the beam. So my message is get involved. There's no place to hide. I'll do my job and I will take responsibility. I won't blame others. I won't traffic in fear and division. I won't fan the flames of hate. I'll seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not use them for political gain.