{"id":2379,"date":"2020-11-12T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T19:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2020-11-12T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T19:52:04","slug":"the-biden-plan-for-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"The Biden Plan for Criminal Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/biden-threat-to-law-enforcement\">piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s\u00a0 City Journal , Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald breaks down the <a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/justice\/#\">Biden\/Harris plan<\/a> for reforming criminal justice.\u00a0 She notes that the plan reads like a &#8220;Black Lives Matter wish list.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Items on the list include re-instituting\u00a0 the Obama era requirement that police departments under consent decrees report weekly to a federal judge justifying that their efforts to enforce the law are not racist.\u00a0 Under Biden\/Harris the requirement also extends to the charging decisions of District Attorneys.\u00a0 The goal is to &#8220;strip police officers and prosecutors of their discretion regarding whom to arrest and whom and how to charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Biden\/Harris administration would move to eliminate federal mandatory-minimum sentences for violent criminals and drug dealers and bribe states with federal grants to do this same.\u00a0 The new administration will expand federal funding of useless racial profiling research of state policing, when the data consistently shows that urban minority districts suffer far higher levels of crime, almost always committed by criminals who are the same race as the victims.\u00a0 Of course the police are stopping and arresting more people in these districts, that&#8217;s where the crime is occurring. \u00a0 &#8220;In Los Angeles, for example, though blacks are only 9 percent of the population, they committed 44 percent of the violent crime in 2019&#8230;..In New York City, blacks committed over 72 percent of all shootings in 2018&#8230;.Whites committed 3 percent of the shootings.&#8221; She has more examples.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden\/Harris plan would also encourage the elimination of cash bail&#8230;something that even voters in the people&#8217;s republic of California rejected at the polls last week. \u00a0 The new administration&#8217;s entire approach to criminal justice would be based on the fiction that every law enforcement agency in the country is thoroughly infused with racism, even in cites where the Mayor, Police, Chief and District Attorney are all black.\u00a0 This is, of course, preposterous, yet it will be the\u00a0 policy of the new administration.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t believe it?\u00a0 Read the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her piece in today&#8217;s\u00a0 City Journal , Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald breaks down the Biden\/Harris plan for reforming criminal justice.\u00a0 She notes that the plan reads like a &#8220;Black Lives Matter wish list.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Items on the list include re-instituting\u00a0 the Obama era requirement that police departments under consent decrees report weekly to a federal judge justifying that their efforts to enforce the law are not racist.\u00a0 Under Biden\/Harris the requirement also extends to the charging decisions of District Attorneys.\u00a0 The goal is to &#8220;strip police officers and prosecutors of their discretion regarding whom to arrest and whom and how to charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Biden Plan for Criminal Justice - Crime &amp; 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