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."
Navy SEALS arresting both Jarrett and her boss?
So says the PuppetMaster.
She is not planning on going anywhere.
I suspect she already has the same job setup under Sanders.
“U” is right next to “I” on the keyboard.
Just sayin...
“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.”
We are in Orwell’s 1984, and this is Newspeak.
So many of the people in prison in the first place have not been gainfully employed or done anything productive with their lives. They are members of street gangs, and their “employment” consists of doing God knows what in the streets.
Yes of course sending gang members back to the streets will make the streets safer. Liberals live in a dream world.
Yep. Never been a doubt in my mind that he won't leave without making his fundamental change to our 2nd Amendment rights.
You don't debate rights, you exercise them. And you do whatever is necessary to those who would deny you those rights. -- Hat tip to some Freeper somewhere ... I'm sure I heard that here first.
No, honey, and 2 plus 2 is 4 not 1. She has the pathological insanity of all the other liberals. Blocking criminal records for federal employees is letting the crooks run the government. But that sounds exactly like what she and Obama want.
Really big. Reparations (stealing money from innocent whites to pay blacks who were never slaves). Forcing Christian to bow down before jihadis. That would be really big and I wouldn’t put it past him.
“Just look at this last year, we’ve had a terrific year...”
I guess it all depends on who’s side you’re on.
On 20Jan17 Valerie Jarrett will be on a flight to some country that doesn’t have extradition with th US
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.
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And that’s the plan, create more federal government to solve the problems created by the federal government.
They are intent on destroying the republic and our way of life- but we knew that.
I think Obama is the co-president.
In other words, BOHICA!
“And Paul Ryan is ready and willing to help.”
Worth repeating.
We need another Dave Brat to take out Ryan in the primary.
Hopefully most of these trashy America actions by Obama can be undone by Trump the first week in office. Obama is not signing laws. Obama is simply directing his drones in the Federal bureaucracy and Trump can do this too. Trump and Cruz are our only hopes. Pray for their good health and success.
I hate it when these bastardly public servants threaten Americans.
I know it seems a long shot but thats sort of how I see it too.
She looks evil....he just looks his own stupid self.
Lake Living wrote: "You have to wonder if they are not working with ISIS to plan attacks on American soil. Nothing would surprise me now..."
Coincidence?
Last Thursday, hours before the Paris terror attack, Obama declared ISIL contained. Questions were raised about the timing of that declaration wondering if it signaled IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh to pull the trigger.
Yesterday, John Kerry also made a public declaration claiming MSNBC: al qaeda 'neutralized' again, this official declaration, made just hours before the terror attack in Mali this morning raises the same questions. Did Kerry's declaration about 'al qaeda being neutralized' give the signal to the al qaeda terrorists in Mali to pull the trigger too?
Note: the time stamp on the MSNBC video clip illustrates 4:19pm on a youtube sourced link which I viewed at 10:13 am ET on 11/20/2015, suggesting the MSNBC report is at least a day old.
Is this pattern of official declarations about the strength of enemy combatants a simple coincidence or evidence of Obama and Kerry being played as dupes/puppets by Muslim Brotherhood advisors within their administration or, even worse, are they willingly complicit?
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