Sessions Sets Goals: Robust Enforcement Of Drug, Gun, Violent Crime

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 28, 2017, 11:05 AM EDT

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that his Justice Department would target recent rises in crime by prioritizing gun and drug offenses and supporting local law enforcement, who he said had been "unfairly maligned and blamed for the unacceptable deeds of a few bad actors."

During remarks to the National Association of Attorneys General, Sessions began by subtly correcting President Donald Trump.

“Overall, crime rates in the United States remain near historic lows,” he said, according to prepared remarks emailed to reporters. “Murder rates are half of what they were in 1980. The rate of violent crime has fallen by almost half from its peak in the early 1990s."

Trump has frequently and falsely claimed the opposite; for example, that the murder rate "is the highest it's been in 47 years."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeff-sessions-outline-priorities

[Archae]

1. But leave the white-collar criminals alone...

Trump needs their bribes...I mean "campaign contributions."

[AJT]

2. The ok to kill and maim with impunity in the name of

the state.

[safeinOhio]

3. If only those "bad actors" were called out

By fellow officers.

[packman]

4. Code breaking 101

Going after the black, poor neighborhoods with cops that aren't going to held accountable.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Should I wait until Memorial Day to wear my "Reefer Madness" t-shirt, or can I wear it now?

It's warming up already in northern Virginia.

[They_Live]

6. White collar and corporate crime gets a pass.

Am I right?

[riversedge]

17. Sessions is just following his boss--tough on crime saga!!

[Crowman2009]

7. Domestic terrorists, and police brutality gets a pass as well.

Beauregard doesn't want to upset Trump's base.

[sharedvalues]

8. Just like Nixon - using drug and crime enforcement to attack their political enemies

As Ehrlichman said

""The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/

(yeah there are articles from the conservative press and GOP surrogates attacking this quote. You can ignore them. Ehrlichman said this and the Harper's reporter has confirmed.)

[gopiscrap]

13. welcome to DU

[Rhiannon12866]

18. The other day, I heard Trump described as "Nixon on steroids."

I think Trump is infinitely more dangerous.

Welcome to DU! We're glad to have you with us!

[pat_k]

9. Backed off using feds to go after state-legalized cannabus?

Perhaps somebody pointed out that voters across the spectrum are partaking?

[dobleremolque]

10. Someone fetch the smelling salts!

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is against states rights on marijuana?!? Oh, Lordy, Lordy! Where is my fainting couch??

[lark]

11. That's probably the last time we will hear Sessions tell even part of the truth.

He's as deranged on most topics as his boss, if not more. He, too, is a demon and will try to destroy us by locking up a huge % for stupid federal MJ laws. R's only care about state's rights when they are hurting working class, helping donor class, or fucking over the environment.

[Hortensis]

12. But Sessions dropped JD's objection to a discriminatory

Texas voter "rights" law targeting POC that the JD had been litigating for 6 years. Nothing new has happened to change the case, just the new administration.

[EarthFirst]

14. The real stupid in this is where he correlates THC potency to violent crime

[heaven05]

15. a wanna-be Confederate

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as the nations AG. This society will go to shit. This man is an EVIL racist. Been one ALL his public and private life. No wonder the stock of the private prison industry has gone theough the roof. Wanna bet me who will continue to fill those prisons for petty crimes? Calls himself a fucking KKKristian I bet. Shithead.

on edit: while showering I was thinking about people I know living in what's called 'urban' areas or "inner cities" and damn if I didn't slip into my thinking on the horrors of the "Warsaw Ghetto" during WWII. With a racist nazi like Sessions running our Justuswhitepeople Department, I sense that his, bannons, millers nazi mentalities could start creating enforced enclaves here in the New AmeriKKKa for minority people(s). Not a stretch. But that's just me.

[dembotoz]

16. the helpful thing is that this provides another simple example of how the gop is filled with morons

should help with you folks....point to sessions acts and say i dunno that you your daddy voted for

[jpak]

19. When he starts raiding state legal Rec-MJ facilities, there will be a political cost to pay

yup