Joe Biden acknowledged Wednesday that questions raised about his support for the 1994 crime bill are “legitimate.”

But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee insisted that people should judge him based on his current actions, not his past.

Speaking during a virtual NAACP forum, Biden responded to questions that the moderator said were from young voters concerned about his role in writing the bill when he was a senator from Delaware.

Critics say the tough-on-crime bill contributed to the mass incarceration of racial minorities in recent decades.

Biden, growing testy, acknowledged that “it’s a legitimate concern, they should be skeptical.”

But he also said that while he’s been “told all along” that young people oppose his past stances on criminal justice issues, “there is no polling evidence to sustain that. Nor is there voting evidence thus far to sustain that.”

“Watch what I do. Judge me based on what I do, what I say and to whom I say it,” he said.

Biden also addressed calls to defund police departments, often made in protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

"The question is, in order to get those funds, it seems to me they should have to meet certain basic minimums," Biden said, before naming standards police departments should meet, such as eliminating choke holds, before receiving federal funding.

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