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Biden unveils plan to end racial discrimination in U.S. criminal justice system
Reuters ^ | July 23, 2019 | Tim Reid

Posted on 07/23/2019 5:28:20 AM PDT by Zakeet

Former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a plan on Tuesday to reform the U.S. criminal justice system by lowering incarceration rates, ending the federal death penalty and eliminating racial disparities in how people are sentenced.

Biden, the Democratic front-runner in the party’s nominating contest to take on Republican President Donald Trump in next year’s election, has faced criticism over his support for a 1994 crime bill that some say contributed to mass incarceration, especially of black men.

That bill, signed into law by former Democratic President Bill Clinton when Biden was a U.S. senator, greatly increased funding for the construction of new federal prisons and included a 'three strikes' provision, which required a mandatory life sentence for a person guilty of committing a severe, violent felony after two previous convictions.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; biden; crime; justice
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Slow Joe fired up his hair plugs and decided to pander to blacks by giving them what they want and need most ... affirmative action for prison sentencing ...

1 posted on 07/23/2019 5:28:20 AM PDT by Zakeet
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Sounds like a plan to me...so under the new system only white folks will be convicted of crimes.
2 posted on 07/23/2019 5:36:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A Joke:Lynch,Comey And Brennan Walk Into A Barr...)
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Why didn't he propose this while VP? 🤔
3 posted on 07/23/2019 5:36:09 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Zakeet

Heck, all we have to do is make sure that whites commit as many crimes as people of color in proportion to population.

Then the laws would work AND be fair.

;)


4 posted on 07/23/2019 5:36:12 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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When are they going to insist that male/female ratios in prison be 50/50?

After all, we can't have any inequity anywhere, can we?

5 posted on 07/23/2019 5:37:13 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Cowboy Bob

Or Sinator?


6 posted on 07/23/2019 5:38:05 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Sounds like a plan to me...so under the new system only white folks will be convicted of crimes. “

Nailed it.


7 posted on 07/23/2019 5:39:19 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Zakeet

Someone should tell Reuters that Biden was out of the race the day he garbled an unintelligible response to a reporters question. It wasn’t 13 seconds, it was a minute if incoherent mush from a older man not capable of competing at this level.


8 posted on 07/23/2019 5:40:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Zakeet

Look at White Joe pander for the black vote.

What a pitiful fool.


9 posted on 07/23/2019 5:40:56 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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As no blacks can be racist, we will now have nothing a black does can be illegal. /s

Since (as I understand it) most crimes committed by blacks is against other blacks. So tell me again Biden how this really helps the black community?


10 posted on 07/23/2019 5:41:15 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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By making blacks commit less crime? Dream on, joe!


11 posted on 07/23/2019 5:43:37 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Is he going to get his KKK buddies to help with that?


12 posted on 07/23/2019 5:43:43 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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“...rounding up Conservatives and executing them.”


13 posted on 07/23/2019 5:45:32 AM PDT by Zathras
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This is the prison version of the “don’t expel black kids from schools” that Obama implemented.

The result was schools couldn’t get rid of the “problem children” and teachers and school principals had to allow the little baby thugs to run amok without consequences. All the rest of the kids could learn nothing.

Criminal version is dump a bunch of “non-violent offenders” back on the streets to go deal drugs and other useful things they were up to before they went to jail.

Also ironic as these folks are in prison because of a bill Biden supported and gave his infamous feral children speech while in the Senate.


14 posted on 07/23/2019 5:46:00 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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So, an outdated career politician is touting a plan to address the ills of a plan he helped implement in the first place. I’m shocked.


15 posted on 07/23/2019 5:47:58 AM PDT by Spruce
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After all, we can't have any inequity anywhere, can we?

When a "person of color" commits a crime, and the incarcerated numbers are off, a while person will be selected to do the time.
Kind of like a pinch hitter
16 posted on 07/23/2019 5:53:34 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: Zakeet

The cancer of social justice in the prison system. What could go wrong?


17 posted on 07/23/2019 5:54:01 AM PDT by lurk
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To: 1Old Pro

In this case, it doesn’t matter. Harris, Warren, and the others are saying “Why didn’t I think of that?” and will shortly attempt to outbid Creepy Uncle Joe.


18 posted on 07/23/2019 6:00:08 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Zakeet

The Joker from Batman?

“Biden unveils plan to end racial discrimination in U.S. criminal justice system”

Righty-O then.

Just put AOC in as AG and have her advise Biden on who to appoint to the bench exclusively from Harlem and the Bronx.

And while you’re at it have AOC appoint federal political officers in every police department across the nation, ensuring the expansion of sanctuary cities and towns.

Make sure the 2nd amendment rights are only available to liberal fascists like ANTI FA, by having all local police departments do background checks for anyone possessing a firearm in their jurisdiction, eliminating any 2nd amendment rights in conservatives.

Sounds like a great plan Joe. When will you hire me for your campaign?(Super sarc.)


19 posted on 07/23/2019 6:00:41 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Make more laws to imprison whitey. Ignore the crimes committed by people “of color”.


20 posted on 07/23/2019 6:02:33 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has beco</me my worst enema.)
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