Posted on 06/07/2019 4:27:18 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said that offenders are "forced" to commit crimes due to a lack of job opportunities.
Dallas, TX – Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall drew the ire of citizens and law enforcement groups on Monday when she implied that society is to blame for forcing criminals who commit violent acts (video below).
“There are socioeconomic issues that are related to crime in individuals in this city,” Chief Hall said during a press conference discussing two recent homicides. “There are individuals in this city who have returned from prison who cannot find a job, who are not educated.”
“In those instances, those individuals are forced to commit violent acts,” the chief declared.
Many were outraged by Chief Hall’s comment, including Dallas Police Association President Mike Mata.
“The Chief saying that people [are] ‘forced to commit violent acts’ it places the blame on society and makes the offenders the victim,” Mata told KTVT. “I don’t believe anyone is forced to violently attack another person.”
By using the word “forced” as opposed to “choose,” Chief Hall placed blame on society, rather than offenders, he said.
“I believe in sentencing guidelines reform and educating violators prior to releasing back into society so they can have the best possible chance of not re-offending,” Mata continued, “but we also have to be accountable for our own actions and never in any way validate an excuse to commit a violent act.”
Chief Hall clarified her comment later on Monday night.
“There is no excuse for crime,” she said, according to KTVT. “Crime in general however, is on the rise in Dallas for many reasons. One of them being a lack of resources and opportunity.”
Chief Hall said she is “in no way” using socioeconomic factors “as an excuse to commit a crime.”
“However, we have to work together as a community to remain vigilant and pro-active,” she added.
Chief Hall said she has reached out to the city’s pastoral community and asked them to help develop ways for citizens to access resources and to resolve disputes nonviolently.
You can watch a clip from Chief Hall’s press conference in the video below:
Just go ahead and commit crimes. All is forgiven.
"The problem" is that the evolving social and political practices of certain communities just doesn't do a good job of growing responsible members. The failures, of course, tend to migrate and overwhelm marginal communities.
Why when we moved to DFW we specifically chose to not live in Dallas
Affirmative action. The stupid rises to the top.
Dangerous idiot. Needs to be let go from his job ASAP.
...and when a felon is employed and then commits another felony, particularly on the job, who gets sued? That’s correct - the bleeding heart employer who tried to give the felon a “second chance”.
BTW, the BLS reports there are now more help wanted openings than there are unemployed people. As Rush says, that’s literal “full employment” meaning if somebody can’t get a job, the problem is the individual, not the society.
Understood. Though I don’t think it would require force. Either way, you’ve identified just how serious the problem may be for at least done Excons. If they can’t fibd jobs or shelter, we can’t expect anything other than they will return to crime. To survive. Realistically, we need to help them get into an honest life path. Or we are helping manufacture a lot of crime that we as a society really don’t need. And extra tragedies —-for no positive reason or purpose at all. Imho.
“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” - Ronald Reagan.
Queen of the Dallas Dindu tribe.
My thoughts exactly the only excusable crime is stealing food basically
A neighbor a couple of miles away told me he shot some raccoons on his deck early one morning and shortly afterward his phone rang. It was another neighbor asking him if he needed a hole dug.
It’s good to have thoughtful neighbors who know how to keep quiet.
Dang. . .I’m impressed.
That’s a good excuse for animals, not for humans.
Kill? She more likely followed the career path of The Mattress.
Dallas is lost!
With cops like this, who needs crooks?
If she’s queer she has the untouchable trifecta.
“I suspect she’s not too bright or well educated.”
Her educational accomplishments include completion of the FBI National Academy, Major Cities Chiefs Executive Leadership Institute (PELI IV), two Masters of Science degrees in Security Administration and Intelligence Analysis, from the University of Detroit Mercy, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Grambling State University.
https://dallaspolice.net/abouts/biography
I agree on the first part of your comment, and education definitely doesn’t equal intelligence, but you’re not going to be chief of a big city police department without the proper credentials. I won’t comment on the quality of her education.
Police Chief Renee Hall
Nuf said right there
Oh man. If socioeconomic status was truly the cause, I should have committed genocide by now.. Yet it hasn’t happened...
Living on less than a grand monthly in Chicago is extremely difficult. Way less than a grand, actually.. Closer to $500.
Pussy pass and race card pass
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