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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:
With cops like this you will have far more crooks than you could ever possibly need.
Now we get IDIOTS like this ‘so called’ Police Chief, clowns like Pelosi, AOC, the MN Muzzies and far too many to list here just spouting off at the mouth and whatever garbage comes out comes out.
We are surely on a fast track to extinction, just how long did it take the Roman Empire to implode?
With our great military being infested with women in combat roles, crossdressers welcomed, queers celebrated, soldiers being persecuted for being soldiers etc etc is certainly paving the road to hell.
I am certainly NOT damning ALL women in these roles just take a look at LEO since their doors were opened to all and the lax regulations not only kept some from joining but the laxness allowed people(MEN & WOMEN) that years ago would never have been considered.
Sorrowfully our Proud Military is also being invaded and Lord only knows how long before DECENT volunteers just pass it by.. Pitiful
Perfect reply xr!
Needs spread nation-wide!
When I was about 22, I found myself standing tall before an affirmative action captain. I was facing disciplinary action, and he was laying out the path before of me. He was talking, and I'm thinking "The word you're searching for is 'repurcussions', " and I'd no sooner thought it than he said "...you're going to have to reap the percussions of your actions." I rolled my eyes, mentally, and tried not to laugh.
Two-fer
Why are so very many big city top law enforcement officers (police chief or sheriff) minority or women? Do they reflect the general population of that l.e. community or is it discrimination?
Parking Ticket Matron now in the Penthouse, whoopie!
Been there also, made 99 on written exam and then get the heave-ho from a phony review board.
Well there’s cleaning the police chiefs house, yard service for the police chief, driving the police chief, nanny for the police chiefs kids, etc.
I’ve got an MBA. If I had to choose between the MBA & a bucket of piss, I might choose the bucket of piss as more valuable. But I needed the degree on my record to make Lt Col in the military...
“The University of Detroit Mercy is a Catholic school in Michigan that emphasizes community outreach.” I’ll bet her two masters degrees are worth less than my MBA, but that is just a guess. After all, Detroit is known for its high standards of education....
You didn’t actually comment on the quality of her education, so I did.
Idiot
Chief Renee Hall
Dallas searched all over for that progressive chief of police.
What a stinker, lame at everything she does, which by the way, is not much.
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Remember Houston had a woman Police Chief or Chief Sheriff or something and she sounded just as stupid.
A guess being an “affirmative action idiot” is a prerequisite for liberal cities female senior officers.
[Add in S.F, Minneapolis, DC, etc).
Political correctness. Affirmative action. Reverse discrimination. Democrats.
Of course she’s an AA hire.
“...meaning if somebody can’t get a job, the problem is the individual, not the society.”
Some people are just “unemployable.”
Did he specify $750/day..week...month.. or hour?
Did he specify $750/day..week...month.. or hour?
I wonder what his attitude is towards those who attempt to resist said thieves? I believe Texas allows people to defend property. Most states don’t.
I was just making the point that you do have to have the credentials to be where she is, even if you get them from Mail Order College. I’m retired Navy. I could write a book about AA in the military.
The corollary to Rudy G’s broken window philosophy.
Dallas has been Austinized.
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