Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Booker is apparently trying to put sole blame on Biden for the 1994 crime bill. Big mistake. [View all]emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)working for an elderly man in the projects. Downstairs in the parking lot sat police car every day. They ate their lunch and never entered the housing areas.
He, the old and disabled man, was behind double doors. People were actually killed in the elevators
for money and drugs. Children were raped.
Residents complained that the police did a little window dressing,but did not get involved.
Crime victims in residential areas living next door to crack houses owned by off site landlords lived in fear. Whole neighborhoods,predominantly black, were blighted by crime connected to the
crack epidemic. They wanted the drug dealers, the gang members, to get real sentences, not the
revolving door.
And those of you complaining of the part of the crime bill we now know led to disproportionate sentences according to race, never mention the highly desirable parts of the bill that could
stand today.
The Violence Against Women Act
Billions of dollars allocated to crime prevention, which included community policing, drug deterrent
courts, and gang prevention.
Hate crime laws
Strong gun regulation.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden