Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden and Senator Cory Booker traded ac...
DETROIT - Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden and Senator Cory Booker traded accusations over their criminal justice records on Wednesday, with Booker calling the former U.S. vice president an “architect of mass incarceration” and Biden slamming Newark’s “stop and frisk” policing when Booker was mayor.
“For a guy who helped to be an architect of mass incarceration, this is an inadequate solution to what is a raging crisis in our country,” Booker, who is black, told reporters after appearing at the annual NAACP convention in Detroit. Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield later responded with a statement raising questions about Booker’s record as mayor of Newark, a majority African-American city he led from 2006 to 2013.
Democrats have intensified their efforts to win over black voters, one of the party’s most loyal constituencies, after the first decline in African-American turnout in 20 years in the 2016 election. That helped sink Hillary Clinton and contribute to Trump’s upset win. Biden’s early lead in the nominating contest has been fueled in part by strong support from black voters. But he has slipped in the polls since the first debate last month with U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, who criticized his opposition to federally mandated busing to integrate schools in the 1970s and his willingness to work with segregationist senators.
“We have now a systemic issue and too many African Americans in jail right now, so I think we should shift the whole focus from what we were doing in terms of incarceration to rehabilitation,” he said.
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