Maryland "Freak State" DANG!
Posted on 04/29/2015 9:44:46 AM PDT by lowbridge
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday addressed the issues of police brutality and rioting most recently seen in Baltimore, by saying the country needs to restore trust between citizens and police officers, and by arguing for an end to lengthy prison terms for low-level offenders.
In an address to Columbia University, Clinton argued that throwing people in jail for smaller crimes isn’t making the country any safer. She also said it’s depriving thousands of children with parents, which is locking in place a cycle of poverty for these families.
“Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families and communities,” she said. “One in every 28 children in our country now has a parent in prison.”
“It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration,” she added. “We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population while keeping our communities safe.”
Clinton, in a rare policy speech that followed events in which she discussed issues such as jobs and education with small groups of people, said that the U.S. is holding more people in prison today than it was decades years ago. While some say higher incarceration levels is the reason why crime levels have fallen, Clinton indicated that she sees no connection between the two.
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“What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul,” she said.
Clinton stressed that as a first step, the rioting and looting in Baltimore must stop. But she said cops have work to do on their end.
She called for “smart strategies” to fight crime, a line reminiscent of her call for using “smart power” in the world while she was secretary of State.
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“Thank God We Got Penitentiaries.” - Richard Pryor.
Dumb move, Hill. You already had the black vote locked up. Statements like this will turn millions on non blacks against you.
“Just look at Benghazi,” Hillary said “we didn’t need to go in there with a heavy hand and kill a bunch of people who were only out for a walk.”
Maryland "Freak State" DANG!
The message to send to rioters:
“Riot. We will not arrest you, and if we accidentally do, we will not convict you.”
I thought surely this was a satire.
Maybe she wants to get first digs on the best cells if she goes to prison.
The dude that died was never in fricking jail..that’s the problem. He’s out there every day getting turned loose to do more “mischief”.
Follow Connecticut’s lead ..... let all the convicted felons, en masse, for early release.
3K rapists and sexual predators, child pornographers and pedophiles, and a variety of violent, vicious criminals:
Manslaughter in the first degree (with intent to cause serious injury)
Sexual assault in the first degree (sex with someone under the age of 13)
Kidnapping in the first degree (intent to inflict physical injury)
Arson in the first degree (intent to destroy an inhabited building)
Employing a minor in an obscene performance
Importing child pornography
Contaminating a public water supply or food supply for terrorist purposes
Injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children
Abandonment of child under the age of six years
Firearms trafficking (knowingly gives someone a firearm – who is barred from owning a firearm )
Cruelty to animals (possess an animal for fighting, intentionally kills a police dog)
This is meant to reward the poor, downtrodden black males. I’m sure they’re all prodective members of society by now.
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