Posted on 03/27/2016 12:15:06 PM PDT by Zakeet
As New York moves to decriminalize low-level offenses, arguing enforcement is "rigged against communities of color," other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department to do the same thing.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has issued a warning to municipal and state judges across the country that their courts could lose federal funding if they don't ease up on fines and arrest warrants for minor crimes involving poor offenders, indigent minorities in particular.
In lieu of fines and jail time, Lynch urges the nation's 6,500 municipal courts to provide an avenue for offenders to perform "community service" or take advantage of "amnesty days," whereby outstanding arrest warrants are cleared for nominal fees.
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Former federal civil-rights attorney Hans Bader, now with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, describes the latest reforms as a "massive assault on the criminal justice system."
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Dear GOPe ... your confirmation of this libtard as Attorney General is an excellent example of why voters are so p*ssed ... you were were elected for the expressed purpose of stopping this garbage ... conservatives everywhere are going to keep organizing and fighting to throw you dimwitted b*stards out of office until we get someone who can figure this out!
This reminds me of the two women who were mad at a homeowner who shot their thieving relative. How else is a boy in the hood supposed to get money?
The voters in cal already did this.
The Obama administration makes a “massive assault on the criminal justice system.”
Why don’t they just come out and admit what they really mean. Laws only apply to white males, and married white hetero females.
Look where this kind of idiocy has done NYC It is quickly turning into a cesspool that it once was.
Look where this kind of idiocy has done to NYC. It is quickly turning into a cesspool that it once was.
I needed to fix that.
Our destimnation: the Twilight Zone
Chain gang=community service
So now we will have three legal systems instead of two.
Qne for the elites, one for the democrat professional victim groups and one for what is left of the working and middle classes.
Then soon Sharia will make it four.....
True words
Always special when top atty of the nation says the law shouldn’t be applied to law breakers
All those low level crimes include drugs,robberies,home invasions etc
Aaaaaand - Open Season on ALL “Cracka’s”. Jus done kil em ya’ll.
When only some laws are enforced only some of the time against only some of the people only under some circumstances, who gives a damn about the laws except those in power who use the law to their own advantage when and how it suits them?
“Enough. The Republicans, heck even Trump, should demand this racist fool resign now.”
Why would Republicans demand her resignation? The GOP majority Senate approved her nomination. What has really changed?
In the meantime HUD is hell bent on spreading these “poor offenders, indigent minorities in particular” people to every safe community in the country.
Not exactly. She wants to decriminalize black criminality and government employee criminality.
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