Bret Stephens' romance with Joe Biden's Crime Bill, or one more angry white male!
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Here are the paragraphs that are revelatory of Mr. Stephen’s unseemly romance with Joe Biden’s Crime Bill. After scare mongering paragraphs chronicling violent deaths :
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East New York, home of the 75th Precinct, was once one of New York’s most violent neighborhoods, registering more than 100 homicides in a year. By 2018, the rate had come down nearly to zero, a fact I celebrated in a column called “Joe Biden: Be Proud of Your Crime Bill.” That was the 1994 bill that intended to fund 100,000 additional cops, built more prisons, demanded tougher sentences and imposed a federal ban on assault weapons.
For all of its shortcomings (and there were plenty), the bill, I wrote, moved America “in the right direction: of more policing and tougher enforcement and a powerful refusal to continue defining criminal deviancy down in the face of those who said we just had to take it.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/opinion/legacy-beauford-black-lives-matter.html
Mr. Stephens’ ‘political memory’ needs refreshment? Or should the reader be concerned that Stephens was 21 in 1994 ? Or that his education at these schools might have been his main concern at age 21? Middlesex School, London School of Economics and Political Science, The University of Chicago.
Here is Joe Biden in defence of his utterly notorious ‘Crime Bill’ on ‘Preditors’ :
To Joe Biden 1993 self ‘Preditors’ were irredeemable, it is redolent with an ersatz Theology. Mr. Stephens, like his political allies at The Manhattan Institute, where Broken Windows Policing was concocted, and its propaganda arm The City Journal, are enthused about the more than possible re-engineered ‘Stop And Frisk’ of Eric Adams. Mr Stephens July 20, 2021 unseemly swooning over Mr. Adams is here:
Headline: Eric Adams Is Going to Save New York
Eric Adams arrives for lunch alone, no entourage or media handler. He shows me his new earring — “the first thing,” he says, that Joe Biden “asked to see” when the two met recently to discuss gun violence. He orders a tomato salad with oil on the side, the abstemious diet of the all-but-crowned king of New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/opinion/eric-adams-nyc-mayor.html
What did Judge Shira A. Scheindlin have to say about ‘Stop and Frisk’? She was removed from the case via ‘Mike’ Bloomberg’s political chicanery!
Headline: Departing Judge Offers Blunt Defense of Ruling in Stop-and-Frisk Case
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She would never forget, she said, seeing a front-page photograph in a newspaper the day after she released her ruling, showing Mr. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, as she put it, “looking like two angry white men.”
“They seemed out of touch with the issues that the communities cared about,” Judge Scheindlin said. “They didn’t seem to understand the impact of these policies on real people and real neighborhoods and real communities and the detrimental impact it was having, even on policing. And that’s the point. They didn’t seem to get it. It was all about fear — New York would blow up.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/nyregion/departing-judge-offers-blunt-defense-of-ruling-that-ended-stop-and-frisk.html
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