@mekkaokereke and Biden was trying to out tough on crime Reagan and Nixon. AND Gingrich in the 90s.
And let's not give LBJ a pass. He's the one the diverted money for the War on Poverty into the War on Crime, giving block grants to police to start sports leagues so they could identify pre delinquents.
Aka children they thought were going to be criminals. Children.
You probably know but for those who don't.
Book: From the war on poverty to the war on crime, Hinton, 2016