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."
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because Jarret is the De Facto President. And the “big things” are things she, a Muslim, has planned.
“On 20Jan17 Valerie Jarrett will be on a flight to some country that doesn’t have extradition with the US”
Payback is going to be a bitch when these criminals can’t hide inside the Presidency
BINGO.
1984 is a must-read or re-read.
Look at the vacant, frightening eyes of the mindnumbed Obama groupies sitting behind.
On 20 Jan 17 — if that doesn’t become a vague dream in the nightmare she has planned for this country. Pray and pray hard that an election will be held.
Criminals are already running the government...from the top down!
Right. ISIS went from JV to Pro. We gave Iran everything they wanted. Health care costs more with higher deductibles. Race relations have become much more divisive. I would hate to see what she thinks a bad year looks like.
“I think Obama is the Co-President.” No. Not even close. In the Kingdom of Jarrett, he is kept in Choomland which he only escapes by playing golf.
Even a picture of this man is now enough to make me sick, literally.
yeah, the walking brain dead
I vote ‘willingly complicit’.
Cloward-Piven final steps. Chaos in law enforcement, release of career criminals, gun seizure from legal owners (excepting criminal underground working for them), massive illegal alien influx, destruction of the infrastructure for medical care through obamaumaocare, dependency on the State in the vacuum created for “protecting the people”— substitution of “their” people for Constitutional officers of the court and law enforcement.
Goal: with black lies matter agitators, criminal act runups— the goal is rioting, and chaos. That is the goal. The “really big things”.
Just imagine— a police chief cannot ask about prior criminal record/prison terms of a potential police person. This is brown shirt land.
That’s what I am worried about. For Obama, really big means things that can cripple or destroy the US as it now exists.
I pray the election will happen, but also, that Hillary is not elected as his replacement. Hillary as president will be more of the same Alinsky liberal bull blank we have absorbed all these years.
What exactly is the rationale for ‘ban the box’ anyway?
Every day the Democrat Party keeps Kenyan POTUS, MUslim, Obama, the American Traitor, in office....is another day they move forward to political destruction!!!
Jarrett is not too fond of Hillary. I know this looks unlikely right now, but Hillary will never be the President.
Gun round up in the US.
Giving Gitmo back to Cuba.
Jarrett salivates at the thought of millions of American Christians in prison camps or dead.
Big things coming in Val?
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