Posted on 11/20/2015 7:42:12 AM PST by smoothsailing
November 20, 2015
White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett said criminal justice reform that reduces the prison population would make America safer.
Jarrett also said President Obama is focused on tackling the issue along with Congress and is not a "lame duck." Obama has directed federal agencies to "ban the box," which prohibits them from asking about an applicant's criminal history. Jarrett said Obama wants Congress to do the same for federal contractors as well, which requires congressional action.
In addition, the Justice Department has decided to release about 6,000 inmates from federal prison who were convicted of drug-related offenses.
Jarrett was asked if reforming the criminal justice system could cause crime to rise.
"We are seeing crime go up in some cities. We're also seeing it leveled in others and going down in the third category," Jarrett said during the "Race and Justice in America" Summit held by The Atlantic.
She said Obama has instructed Attorney General Loretta Lynch to meet with the mayors and police chiefs in cities where crime is rising to figure out what the federal government can do to help.
"The reason why we have so much support from law enforcement for criminal justice reform - and the president was just speaking to the International Association of Chiefs of Police of Chicago a couple weeks ago - they fully support it and they believe if we have meaningful reform it will actually make the streets safer," Jarrett said.
"If you keep people from going to prison in the first place, and they don't get caught up in that system and they are getting employed and they have ways of taking care of their family, that brings crime down, and so I think we have all of the stakeholders firmly engaged in this process as a way of keeping our neighborhoods safer and allowing people to lead productive lives."
Jarrett predicted "really big things" would happen during Obama's final year in office.
"Even though we only have one year left, it's the second half of the fourth quarter but really big things happen at the end of the game as we all know. Just look at this last year, we've had a terrific year, and if you recall not that long ago the press was calling the president a lame duck - I believe it was - it doesn't feel much like lame duck to me," she said.
"So he has decided that building on the momentum since day one that he really wants to focus on criminal justice reform writ large - the community, the system itself and what we can do."
I tend to believe that Ryan is willing to help Obama ‘change’ the US. His history of political involvement from family to government has always been what will get himself political power.
Yes, same look. Frightening.
He’s flooding our country with terrorists and is trying to disarm us. What else could it be?
Jarrett predicted “really big things” would happen during Obama’s final year in office.
———— Here it is ———————
President Obama gave us a sneak peak of his upcoming agenda for 2016, his last year in the Oval Office, during an interview with GQ Magazine. His top concern? ...gun control of course.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/11/18/obama-my-top-issue-for-2016-will-be-gun-control-n2082454
Obama says gun control to be top issue of final year
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/11/18/obama-my-top-issue-for-2016-will-be-gun-control-n2082454
I read that statement three times thinking I was missing something. I don’t even know what to say anymore. Unreal.
Reninds me of pictures of the Cheshire cat.
What you can bank on is that, along with the criminals, scads of muslims will be turned loose in the streets to commit mayhem to their heart's content without fear of reprisal. Also, it will go out over the back channels to the police agencies that no Blacks or muslims are to be arrested. For any reason and that anyone who interferes with the Blacks or muslims as they have their fun, the full force of the law is to fall upon them.
ValJar was born into a Communist family .... works in an Administration filled with Communists ..... how do you know she is a Moslem?
Look for a spike in murders, both releasees preying on the public and releasees being killed by the drug dealers who replaced them in the old 'hood when they went away to Club Fed.
Black-on-black crime in the 80's and 90's, during the "crack wars", was about competing distributorship players killing each other. It accounted for very close to 50% of all murders, and half of murders of non-black people. (That's about 6% of the population, "black boys", accounting for 75% of all murders everywhere in the United States.)
Whoever these people are, their return to freedom will not be celebrated by people who "moved up" because of their incarceration.
I don’t know, just like we don’t know for Obama. We know she was born in Iran, for example; we know she and her family have extensive ties to Communist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood and rumors in DC have her dating a Muslim convert, Ahmed Rashad, but secretly.
bfl- much later...
Yo, ValJar Space Alien, if there is any justice left in the land of the free and the home of the brave then what's coming for Obama is IMPEACHMENT.
I've seen this before. It's the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/valerie-jarrett-is-a-muslim-and-controls-the-white-house/
What kind of people allow a criminal phony government to turn crooks and murderers loose on the population and sit back and do nothing?
Really people, who has the guts to stop this crap?
Nixon: I am not a crook.
Obama: I am not a lame duck.
Followed at some small interval by a C-17 full of Rangers in full raid equipment ... and a net.
If they don't have extradition, just go get her. If you have to climb a few Himalayas or perform a scuba dive of five miles or so, or a 20-mile hike through cobra-infested Burmese jungle (oh, excuse me, I meant "endangered shrinking rain forest" </s>), go get a rope on this beeotch and drag her ass back to stand trial in Possum Center, Iowa on a list of federal charges it'll take 15 minutes just to read.
Yes, the QUOTE is fiction.
Exactly. As Dan Rather would say: “Fake but accurate”.
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