Posted on 02/28/2018 1:45:10 AM PST by a little elbow grease
(snip) -- RUSH: Now, expanding on the PROMISE Program that we on this program explained to you yesterday. Here’s the upshot of the PROMISE Program. It was started in Chicago by the current superintendent in the school district in Broward. Robert Runcie was in Chicago. The premise of the PROMISE Program is federal grants. This happened under the Obama administration and Eric Holder. The money came from the Department of Justice.
It originated from the premise that the Democrats hold that the prison population is disproportionately minority and African-American because of injustice in America. You have the black population, what, 15, 20%; the prison population of minorities and African-Americans can be 60%. Ergo the justice system must be tainted. This is what Holder and Obama believe. So they believe that bigotry and racism is resulting in charges and convictions against innocent minority perps.
(snip) -- There would be payments involved if the local police department looked the other way. Obama spread walking-around money out like no president ever has before him. Well, now that this program was announced yesterday, it’s becoming even more widely reported on and known now, and Breitbart has a story: “Broward County Likely ‘Inspiration’ for Obama School Discipline Policy to Report Fewer Arrests, Suspensions.”
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
Even though the program began in Chicago with Robert Runcie who the current superintendent in Broward County, he was transferred or he was hired away by Broward after the PROMISE Program showed such great results in the Chicagoland area. “The Broward County school district’s adoption of a school discipline policy that was praised by the Obama administration for seeking to reduce the reported number of school suspensions, expulsions, and arrests may have played a role in the fact that Nikolas Cruz remained under the radar until his shooting rampage in Parkland, Florida, on February 14.
“‘The facts pattern that has emerged strongly suggests it played a role,’ [according to] Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden… The Obama-era Departments of Education and Justice — under education secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder — issued school guidelines in 2014” the program actually dates 2013 “that claimed students of color are ‘disproportionately impacted’ by suspensions and expulsions, a situation they said leads to a ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ that discriminates against minority and low-income students. ‘Broward County was the first to have the goal of lowering suspensions, lowering expulsions, lowering arrests,’ explains Eden. ‘And, so, they decided to reduce police involvement by not bringing in cops to arrest kids for a whole range of serious offenses…”
And then as you would expect, the arrests go down when you stop arresting, and that is taken to be a sign of success. Kind of like defining deviancy down.
That was also the stance of former NYC mayor David Dinkins in relation to crime stats.
“Let’s just not prosecute or arrest” and thus would “lower” the crime rate.
David Clarke, the sheriff of Milwaukee, has a piece, Breitbart: “Democrats ‘Have Screwed this Country Up with Failed, Liberal Urban Policies’ — Sheriff David Clarke blamed the nation’s crippling cycle of poverty and the ‘myth’ of mass incarceration of black males on the Democrats and their ‘failed, liberal urban policies’ which he says have ‘screwed this country up.'”
This is from a panel at CPAC: “Breaking Bad: What it Takes to Rise Above Circumstances.” And you know, the reason the headline struck me, “Democrats ‘Have Screwed this Country Up with Failed, Liberal Urban Policies.'” Now, this whole article, which is a rehashing of the seminar at CPAC, is just one truth after another. And the reason it struck me is because here’s somebody actually fearlessly placing the blame where it really belongs and pointing out what needs to happen.
These people need to be defeated, not met with and not accommodated and not compromised with.
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Colossal stupidity.
It was.
Just another kleptocratic feel-good program.
Thes social justice progressives used to be in their ivory towers at universities and radical street groups, but Obama & Co. are so radical and perverted in mind that they actually did the unthinkable and gave them power to implement their dangerous ideas.
In true Marxist-Alinsky form, their ends of reducing black/minority crime rates and incarceration was achieved by “any means necessary.” Well, in this case, it was the laziest means—fakery and deception. They just had officials not document crime. No documentation? Then on paper, crime rates and incarceration go down; and as a reward, their coffers get filled with government incentive monies.
In actuality, the Broward crime hellhole (and indeed it had been) actually gets worse because “at risk” and hardened criminals both know that they will get a free pass. There is no deterrent.
And when the database that depends on reoprting actual crimes to NICS and the county mental health agenciy is broken because of this radical and dangerous policy, a particul evil, the slaughtering of our precious youth, is not circumvented as it clearly should have been. Yes, it is a great perversion to ignore lawbreaking and lawlessness for a statistical goal based on race and not individual responsibility and justice. Do not forget that perversions always lead to destruction.
America, do not reject your common sense. You know these dangerous ideas don’t work. Speak up in your own communities and schools. Stop them!
Doesn’t it follow that we can reduce school shootings by not arresting school shooters? Problem solved.
Thank you for writing.
That policy gave us Trayvon Martin who was also from Broward County.........
SHOULD BE:
And when the datastream of reporting actual crimes to the NICS database and to the county mental health agency is broken because of this radical and dangerous policy...
Also feel like no one in the media is focusing on this. They’ll beat up on the sheriff all day long, but no one seems to connect to where the blame lies — at the top, from 2008-2016.
Never let a crisis go to waste; if there is no crisis, create one.
Mr. niteowl77
Do dems think
A) the crimes didnt happen
B) the perps are really white
C) the law should not apply to minorities
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Right on.
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