Mother Jones magazine: on Crime
Adrian Perkins:
Repealed "saggy pants" law targeting people of color
Lawmakers voted to repeal a 12-year-old ordinance banning pants that sag below the waist after outcry over the death of Anthony Childs, who was stopped by police for violating the law. "It is my opinion that while the ordinance was originally
well-intentioned, it unfairly targets people of color," Perkins said. "Just like many initiatives in the war on drugs that we now realize are discriminatory against people of color, we've evolved to reach that understanding. And this is in that vein."
Source: Mother Jones newsmagazine on 2020 Louisiana Senate race
Jun 13, 2019
Bill de Blasio:
NYC enjoying major drop in crime rate
In fact, crime has fallen in New York City in each of the major felony categories--murder and manslaughter, rape, assault, robbery, burglary, grand larceny, and car thefts. The numbers, when taken together, portray a city of
8.5 million people growing safer even as the police, under Mayor Bill de Blasio, use less deadly force, make fewer arrests and scale back controversial practices like stopping and frisking thousands of people on the streets.
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Dec 28, 2017
Donald Trump:
FactCheck: yes, second chance with criminal justice reform
Trump said, "Our roaring economy has, for the first time ever, given many former prisoners the ability to get a great job and a fresh start. This second chance at life is made possible because we passed landmark Criminal Justice Reform into law.
Everybody said that Criminal Justice Reform could not be done, but I got it done, and the people in this room got it done."Mother Jones Fact-Check: Yes, it's true that Trump signed a much-heralded bill in
2018 to reform the federal criminal justice system, with broad bipartisan support. The First Step Act made changes that have reduced the federal prison population, and it was the first criminal justice reform bill to pass Congress in a generation.
So far, the law has shortened the prison stays of about 2,500 people who were serving disproportionately long sentences for crack cocaine offenses, most of them African American. And it could lead to improvements in prison conditions.
Source: Mother Jones Fact-Check on 2019 State of the Union
Feb 4, 2020
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