Tag: crime
Posted on Thu May 07, 2015 at 11:39:32 AM EST
Tags: Hillary Clinton, crime (all tags)
Radley Balko effectively takes a few Washington Post columnists to task for their articles criticizing Hillary Clinton's recent statements on our unjust mass incarceration policies. His article, also in the Washington Post, is titled "This isn’t 1968. Baltimore isn’t Watts. And Hillary Clinton isn’t Michael Dukakis." He writes:
Both [columnists]compared the civil unrest of 2015 to the civil unrest in 1968. Both cited Nixon’s “tough on crime” campaign, which even members of that campaign team have since admitted was an overt, often racist appeal to white fear of black people. Both scorned Clinton for being “soft on crime,” and daring to criticize mass incarceration in a speech given the same week as the riots. Both mentioned New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and his shift in tone from gently criticizing the New York City police department for excessive force after the death of Eric Garner to robustly defending the officers after they were accused of roughing people up at a recent protest.
[More...]
(2 comments, 1383 words in story) There's More :: Permalink :: Comments
Posted on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 09:54:51 AM EST
Tags: death penalty, execution, ricky ray rector, arkansas, bill clinton, politics, election, crime, democrats, michael dukakis, debates, bernard shaw, appalling moments in public discourse (all tags)
Four presidential cycles ago today, Hillary's husband dropped a syringe plunger in the old Democratic party.
(961 words in story) There's More :: Permalink :: Comments
