President Biden's anti-crime bill: Will it make America safer?

President Biden's anti-crime bill: Will it make America safer?
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September 15, 2022
Stefano KotsonisMeghna Chakrabarti
U.S President Joe Biden gives remarks during an event celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on the South Lawn of the White House on September 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed by the House and Senate and later signed by Biden in August. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
U.S President Joe Biden gives remarks during an event celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on the South Lawn of the White House on September 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed by the House and Senate and later signed by Biden in August. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
President Biden's $37 billion anti-crime plan.

A third of the money would go to hiring more cops. But critics say that’s not how to reduce crime.

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"What Biden is essentially saying with 100,000 more cops is that he is willing to increase the number of Black people who are unjustly murdered for the goal of appeasing whites who incorrectly think that more cops reduce crime," Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, says.

"So he's not actually solving a problem, but he's willing to create one."

Today, On Point: Parsing the president’s plan to reduce crime in America.