Posted on 01/05/2024 12:24:20 PM PST by NorthMountain
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains that putting more criminals in jail does not prevent violent crime but that addressing the “root causes” of violence, like racism, will make communities safer, according to internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The CDC is set to release new guidance, titled the Community Violence Prevention Resource for Action, on how to address community violence in the coming weeks, according to documents obtained by the DCNF. In a section of a document detailing the CDC’s planned responses to potential questions from the public on its upcoming recommendations, the agency claims that “increasing punitive measures, including incarceration, does not reduce community violence” and that “we can work to prevent violence by addressing the underlying conditions that contribute to violence,” like racism.
The community violence recommendations are based on the “best available evidence,” according to the CDC, and will identify firearm violence as a “public health problem,” in line with the CDC’s past guidance on viewing gun violence and community violence broadly as public health concerns. (RELATED: New CDC Director Teases Annual COVID Shots)
The new guidance will “[weave] health equity concepts throughout” and is intended to help “address structural inequities.” Youth impacted by violence are at a higher risk for “mental health challenges, such as substance use, obesity, high-risk sexual behavior, depression, traumatic stress, low educational attainment or suicide,” according to the CDC’s document.
However, the CDC’s internal communications strategy, obtained by the DCNF, sheds further light on how the CDC views criminal justice. The strategy indicates the CDC views crime as the product of underlying social factors like racism and economic inequality, and that it views incarceration as an ineffective means of reducing crime.
The CDC needs to be eliminated.
They’ve been on the negative side of the Credibility Scale since their aids bs in the 1990s.
I’m sure they would be so much happier back in Africa
Dr Fubar needs to start a fund and help them
The jackass bureaucrats at the CDC know more about criminals than they do about diseases. I wonder where they got their training?
Just in time for the WHO treaty-that-is-not-a-treaty.
Pretty much EVERY department, agency and bureau based in DC needs to be evaluated for elimination, break-up, or moving elsewhere.
DC and Fed.gov have gone completely woke. They have infested everything, like termites.
IMO ...
The problem with CDC and many other agencies isn’t that they’re “woke”. The problem is that they exist in the first place.
What does the CD have to do with criminal justice?..................
The CDC cannot even handle a virus outbreak correctly. That’s something they’re supposed to be experts on. And now they’re going to lecture us on crime prevention?
I wonder what’s next. Maybe they’ll issue a position paper on how to correctly bet in five-card draw poker.
Will it be like the covid “recommendations” which ended up having the effect of laws in most places and to most agencies and groups, such as the AMA & the American Hospital Association? Evil. Pure evil!
I started wondering that thirty years ago ...
The “public health” government-industry complex has been shot through with disarmament freaks for decades.
“You have a penis. Therefore, you might be a rapist. Off to the gulag with you...”
I detest the phrase, “Stay in your lane.”
It is sufficiently rude for the case at hand.
You would think that an organization like the CDC would have at least one person intelligent enough to know that the term
__________________________RACISIM____________________________
Just doesn’t have the cachet or power it used to have.
WHEN EVERYTHING IS RACIST, NOTHING IS RACIST!!!!
Crime is not a disease. But quarantining criminals away from polite society works.
Who funds this crap? Isn’t all federal money.
When social justice takes precedent over disease study and epidemiology, our society is due another viral outbreak that will be handled as poorly as the Wuhan virus outbreak. Affirmative action hires by the CDC has taken a toll upon the effectivity of the CDC and its direction. The stench of the Obama hires permeated the Trump administration and the direction of the Wuhan Virus outbreak early as the ones in charge misdirected our President at almost every turn. Now they have perverted the CDC even moreso during this administration.
They’ve been into anti-gun crap since the 1990s.
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