‘Social justice reform’ is no justice at all

WAPO ^ | 11/27/2019 | Jeffrey A. Rosen

[bitt]

Jeffrey A. Rosen is the deputy attorney general of the United States

Thanks to sensible law enforcement policies, violent crime rates dropped by half nationwide over the past three decades. Although increases occurred in 2015-2016, the rates again dropped during the first two years of the Trump administration. But reductions in crime are neither automatic nor inevitable. They are the result of federal, state and local law enforcement and prosecutors working together to enforce the laws.

Unfortunately, a trend is emerging that could threaten the hard-fought progress in public safety. A small but troubling number of state and local prosecutors are vowing that they will not enforce entire categories of core criminal offenses, as part of a misguided experiment in “social justice reform.”

A prosecutor has a vital role: to enforce the law fairly and keep the public safe. These purportedly progressive district attorneys, however, are shirking that duty in favor of unfounded decriminalization policies they claim are necessary to fix a “broken” system.

[ronnie raygun]

Social justice is a program to label and eliminate the justice system in this country as unfair and racist. Many states are opening their jails, removing bail, allowing those who should be locked up free to return to their communities and their life of crime. Would you press charges if you knew the government did not have your back and the perp will be out the next day?

[Wuli]

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[itsahoot]

Many states are opening their jails, removing bail, allowing those who should be locked up free to return to their communities and their life of crime.

Oklahoma will likely turn blue because the Republican Governor decided to empty the jails.

What do we expect will happen if the Congress changes the pot laws to allow all those petty criminal possession charged criminals to be released?