Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Hillary Clinton called for a radical overhaul of the US criminal justice system in a speech Wednesday morning, declaring a culture of racial injustice and admitting: “We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.”

In a stirring speech at a policy forum in New York, Clinton called on police to ensure that “every department … has body cameras to record interactions between police officers and suspects.” She added a call for the de-militarization of police forces, and the elimination of “weapons of war on our streets.”

“From Ferguson to Staten Island to Baltimore, the patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable,” Clinton said. “Walter Scott shot in the back in Charleston, South Carolina … Tamir Rice, shot in a park in Cleveland, Ohio … Eric Garner, choked to death after being stopped for selling cigarettes.”

...snip...

In her address Wednesday, Clinton said “we need to chart a course” on imprisonment, noting that the United States has 5% of the total global population yet 25% of its prison population.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/29/hillary-clinton-criminal-justice-overhaul-baltimore-unrest

[bemildred]

1. Good. Go all the way left Hillary, don't let anybody outflank you. nt

[Garion_55]

2. I wanna hear the magic words

As president i will end the war on drugs.


thats what will make things right.

[Sunlei]

13. I want to hear the magic words, LOCAL segregation using local Association 'laws' has to go away.

State and Federal laws are enough laws, rules and control of communities.

The local 'smallest' govs are the very ones who oppress personal freedom and over-regulate people for the revenue.

[damnedifIknow]

3. I'm a Bernie fan but she's starting to grow on me

[rhett o rick]

4. Glad she is finally speaking out on issues. nm

[earthside]

5. Where has Hillary been?

I'm not giving her credit for finally addressing this issue.

Many other Democrats, Bernie Sanders, even Jim Webb, have been talking about this for years.
We need real leadership ... not timidity and finally trying to get out in front of the parade.

[bigdarryl]

6. Where has Sanders or for that matter O'Malley who was Mayor and Gov. of M.D. been

Sanders lives in a state that doesn't even have a large African American community

[earthside]

7. Webb, Sanders, most Democratic U.S. Senators in 2008 ...

... were introducing legislation on this.

That's where they have been.

[bigdarryl]

9. And Hillary wasn't ?

[brooklynite]

10. Care to give us a cite?

[Comrade Grumpy]

16. Webb spent most of his term trying to get the National Criminal Justice Commission Act passed.

Senate Votes Against National Criminal Justice Commission ...
www.innocenceproject.org/.../senate-votes-against-nati...
Innocence Project
Oct 21, 2011 - Virginia Senator Jim Webb introduced the National Criminal Justice Commission Act earlier this year to create a bipartisan commission that ...
Jim Webb's Criminal Justice Overhaul Commission Blocked ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../jim-webb-criminal-justi...
The Huffington Post
Oct 20, 2011 - Jim Webb's effort to reform criminal justice in the United States has ... Webb first introduced the National Criminal Justice Commission Act in ...
Continue Fight for National Criminal Justice Commission ...
www.brennancenter.org/.../continue-fight-nati...
Brennan Center for Justice
Nov 2, 2011 - Jim Webb, D-VA, to create a bipartisan commission to study the nation's broken criminal justice system. But its narrow defeat has only ...
Republicans block justice review proposal in Senate - Politico
www.politico.com › Congress
Politico
Oct 20, 2011 - By contrast, just four Senate Republicans backed Webb Thursday: Sens. ... “We need a national commission to look at the criminal justice ...
S.714: National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 ...
https://www.opencongress.org/bill/.../sh...
Participatory Politics Foundation
Mar 26, 2009 - A bill to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission. view all titles (3). Close ... Jim Webb. D-VA. View Co-Sponsors (39)Hide Co- ...
National Criminal Justice Commission Call-In Day | NAACP
www.naacp.org/...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
In early 2011, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and bipartisan cosponsors re-introduced the National Criminal Justice Commission Act (S. 306), legislation that would ...
Jim Webb's Criminal-Justice Crusade - Newsweek
www.newsweek.com/jim-webbs-criminal-justice-crusade-67347
Sep 11, 2011 - Nor is it because Webb “slugged” President Bush on a White House .... But even if the National Criminal Justice Commission Act were to pass ...
Congress: House Passes National Criminal Justice ...
blog.norml.org › NORML Blog › ACTIVISM
Jul 29, 2010 - Jim Webb (D-VA). Senate Bill 714 will establish a `National Criminal Justice Commission' to hold public hearings and “undertake a ...
Senate Fails to Adopt Amendment to Create a National ...
https://www.nasbo.org/.../senate-fails-adopt-amendment-create-national-c...
Oct 24, 2011 - ... Jim Webb (D-VA) offered S. 306, the National Criminal Justice ... of an independent National Criminal Justice Commission (NCJC), fell three ...
National Criminal Justice Commission Act Archives - MPP ...
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Marijuana Policy Project
Oct 21, 2011 - If you've been following news in the drug policy world, you know that Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) is sponsoring the National Criminal Justice ...

[brooklynite]

17. ...after Hillary Clinton left the Senate

Do you have any information suggesting Clinton wouldn't have supported this if she was still in office?

[PatriceKelly]

8. Nothing About Financial Criminals Getting Off Scot Free

All lip service.

You can't do reform when the criminals that steal billions from millions never get mentioned.

Hillary will never (and you can't blame her) talk about real justice and real fairness.

The game is rigged, but they (the powerful) still go over the line and still never get locked up.

Too big to jail not mentioned.

Good luck Hillary.

We don't need a tiny bit of change when we are being robbed of trillions.

[PatriceKelly]

11. The Real Problem Hillary = Crime = Only Jobs Available

Wall Street sucks all the money out, and outsources everything possible to the third world, and the powerless are supposed to some how scratch out a living making next to nothing, or nothing at all, but not steal. All the time they are being robbed at ever turn.

Justice = opportunity.

I am sure she Hillary will beat around the bush, but where is the GUARANTEE
that if you work hard and play by the rules, instead of turning to a life
of crime you will ever have a chance to get ahead.

Crime is the only job for most of these people.

The billionaires that will expect her (as everyone else) to work for them
do not plan on sharing anything but crumbs in most cases.

Roosevelt = 2nd New Deal is obviously what is needed.

How can you keep people out of jail if there is zero opportunity?

Whistling past the graveyard won't cut it Hil.

[Sunlei]

12. The use of Tasers as cattle prods (they set to 'drive mode' & press to skin) has to be made illegal.

cattle prods are torture.

[democrank]

14. An important speech

Glad she did this.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. I wanna hear her apologize to black Americans for the race politics she played in 2007-8...

Then maybe I'll listen.