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Title: Hillary Clinton acknowledges 1994 crime bill led to mass incarceration of minorities, tells Daily News editorial board the bill also did good things
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NY Daily News
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol ... ncarceration-article-1.2594729
Published: Apr 9, 2016
Author: Kenneth Lovette
Post Date: 2016-04-10 14:36:29 by cranky
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Views: 647
Comments: 7
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told the Daily News editorial board that she wants to do more to "demilitarize the police," while admitting that the 1994 crime will was a mixed bag. Hillary Clinton on Saturday conceded her husband’s 1994 crime bill had the unintended consequence of mass incarceration. Speaking before the Daily News editorial board, Clinton said the bill did a lot of good things like adding more cops to the streets and creating a ban on assault weapons. ut she said it also led states to enact policies that resulted in more people, especially people of color, being imprisoned for nonviolent crimes. “That was not as apparent at the time, but part of being a responsible decision maker is to keep track of what’s happening,” she said. “And now I think it’s clear there were some consequences that we do have to address.” Clinton talked about the need to crack down on gun violence, invest in police retraining, incentivize states to enact prison diversion programs and sentencing reforms, and push for the restoration of prison education programs. In addition, she wants to do more to “demilitarize the police.” She said post 9/11, police departments both big and small were given military equipment. Clinton, who recently apologized for having used the term “superpredators” when describing who the crime bill targeted, said she used the term “only once. Never did it again.” Former President Bill Clinton last week shot back at protesters who say his crime bill harmed minority communities by saying it led to a reduction in crime. He also defended his wife’s use of the term “superpredators.” “I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out into the streets to murder other African-American children,” he said. The 1994 crime bill — passed under Former President Bill Clinton — led states to enact policies that resulted in more people, especially people of color, being imprisoned for nonviolent crimes. 
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#7. To: cranky (#0)
Just ONCE I would like to see someone stand up on their hind legs and tell some of those idiots,and it is an insult to an idiot to put them in the same class as Travyon Martin's mother,that the REASON the crack down on crime had a "disproportionate affect on blacks and minorities IS BECAUSE BLACKS AND OTHER MINORITIES COMMITE A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF THE VIOLENT CRIMES! Tell your thug sons to quit robbing,shooting,raping,and murdering,and watch the numbers of them arrested falling. Let's get real,here. Know why cops aren't focusing their attention on white or Jewish street gangs? IT'S BECAUSE THERE ARE NO WHITE OR JEWISH STREET GANGS!
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