Posted on 04/29/2015 9:44:46 AM PDT by lowbridge
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday addressed the issues of police brutality and rioting most recently seen in Baltimore, by saying the country needs to restore trust between citizens and police officers, and by arguing for an end to lengthy prison terms for low-level offenders.
In an address to Columbia University, Clinton argued that throwing people in jail for smaller crimes isn’t making the country any safer. She also said it’s depriving thousands of children with parents, which is locking in place a cycle of poverty for these families.
“Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families and communities,” she said. “One in every 28 children in our country now has a parent in prison.”
“It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration,” she added. “We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population while keeping our communities safe.”
Clinton, in a rare policy speech that followed events in which she discussed issues such as jobs and education with small groups of people, said that the U.S. is holding more people in prison today than it was decades years ago. While some say higher incarceration levels is the reason why crime levels have fallen, Clinton indicated that she sees no connection between the two.
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“What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul,” she said.
Clinton stressed that as a first step, the rioting and looting in Baltimore must stop. But she said cops have work to do on their end.
She called for “smart strategies” to fight crime, a line reminiscent of her call for using “smart power” in the world while she was secretary of State.
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That is a idea. More thugs on the street with permission to destroy.
OK, I can think of a few candidates (no pun intended) for singled out, highly specific incaraceration.
I can think of one long prison term long overdue.
Racist.
The utter bigotry of far too low expectations of black behavior. Oh, they can’t help it. If you would not expect Asians or whites to riot when they are upset, then please don’t accept that behavior from blacks.
Hillary is a riot...!
So would she stop jailing rapists ..they have families.
So she prefers mass executions?
“100,000 more cops, 100,000 less cops, at this point what difference does it make?”
I agree. Send all inner city thug criminals to Chappaqua, NY.
It’s time to end the era of mass law-breaking.
Lets start with some of the gun laws.
Wait! I’m out of popcorn!
Plenty of ammo though.
She is that family.
Shut up, Hillary.
Don’t you have donation envelopes to open up or something?
Actually I had the exact opposite thought. I was thinking how nice it would be if everyone of those those involved with burning buildings or playing “the knockout game” were sent to prison for 10 years.
It took a village to get where we are in raising kids.
“She is that family. “
Quote of the day!
Soul? What soul? We have a better chance of retreiving her shredded/deleted e-mails than we do of locating Hillary's non-existent soul. Evil B*tch.
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