Eric Holder calls Trump administration's crime policies dangerous and dispiriting

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Eric Holder calls Trump administration's crime policies dangerous and dispiriting

• Former attorney general says shift ignores bipartisan consensus on reform
• Policies ‘are not tough on crime, they are not smart on crime’

Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
Wednesday 18 October 2017 19.12 BST

Donald Trump is pursuing “dangerous” policies on crime that ignore a growing bipartisan consensus on criminal justice reform, former attorney general Eric Holder said on Wednesday at a summit in Washington.

Holder, the US’s first black attorney general, joined police chiefs, elected officials and other advocates at the National Law Enforcement Summit on Crime in pressing Trump and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, on recent actions by the administration that have amounted to a return to the tough-on-crime tactics of the 1990s.

“They are not tough on crime, they are not smart on crime,” Holder said.

The Trump administration’s decision to reinstate policies such as mandatory minimums for non-violent drug crimes, he added, was “disappointing, dispiriting and ultimately dangerous”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/18/eric-holder-trump-administration-crime-dangerous-policies

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Trump and Session's have made

it clear,they only see Brown Skinned Person's as their Criminal's and need to be prosecuted or deported.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Plus the filthy scum have said anyone who identifies as black is a terrorist