Posted on 05/28/2024 10:47:17 AM PDT by SJackson
Once again, our Illinois politicians believe they have the magic that will cure the crime that riddles our city of Chicago. I recently learned that our state’s Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce House Bill 4409 to amend the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009 in order to rename "offenders" as "justice-impacted individuals." That is right — with the magic of rewording, we will no longer have "offenders" or "criminals." Instead, we will have "justice-impacted individuals" and the implication could not be clearer: rather than being seen as criminals who victimized society they will be seen as victims of the system. I wish it were that simple.
If it were, I could stop my work as a pastor who has tried to reform criminals in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side for the last 20 years.
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But you and I know that this latest move by our state politicians is just more leftist foolishness.
It makes me tired. I’m of watching how these liberals have sprinkled this magic dust in my neighborhood over and over — for the last seven decades. In the beginning, long before I arrived on the South Side to begin my ministry, they introduced welfare policies that took the father out of the home in exchange for government dependency.
Year after year, they failed to provide us with sufficient schools and teachers — today, the nearby elementary school produces kids who can barely read or do math. And only several months ago, less than a year ago, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that he would magically achieve equity by shuttering some of the city’s best public high schools because it wouldn’t be fair to the Black kids in poor performing schools.
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worth reading the article
Well, I suppose it’s OK if they also re-label victims as “INjustice impacted individuals”.
Not the Bee
The same crap the left always does.
Gotta make them a victim.
You just have to believe in majic.
the left always side with the real criminals
“...rename “offenders” as “justice-impacted individuals.”
One minority group has changed it accepted name several times over the decades. Colored, Negro, Black, African-American, Afro-American, ‘teen’.
Our local school district changed the name of the high school for kids ‘who don’t fit in’ from ‘Alternative School’ to ‘Academy’.
The problem with this is it doesn’t really fool anyone with a brain. And it solves absolutely nothing.
In the US Government, we’re being introduced to the term “Justice-involved individuals” when it comes to considering job candidates, including contractors. Duh, didn’t take long to figure that one out.
No, criminals and ex-cons will not be cleared, hired and near me at work while I’m still working. They can wait until I walk in a few years, if that long.
Took a while to realize this wasn’t the Bee...
“justice-impacted individuals” sounds more like the victims of the criminals. Not the criminals.
There has got to be a reason that Miami and Chicago have swapped realities. Miami was the most crime ridden large city at one time. But now its Chicago.
and robbery is a financial transaction, and rape is a social engagement... right???
Will this new understanding of a criminal extend to the governor as well?
Remember when America valued free speech? Not really!
Chicago Riots in 1968
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