By Frank Vyan Walton
Apr 08, 2016
NOTICE: THIS WORK MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO READ THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE AT THIS LINK BEFORE YOU READ THE FOLLOWING WORK, THAT IS AVAILABLE SOLELY FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP OR RESEARCH PURSUANT TO 17 U.S.C. SECTION 107 AND 108. IN THE EVENT THAT THE LIBRARY DETERMINES THAT UNLAWFUL COPYING OF THIS WORK HAS OCCURRED, THE LIBRARY HAS THE RIGHT TO BLOCK THE I.P. ADDRESS AT WHICH THE UNLAWFUL COPYING APPEARED TO HAVE OCCURRED. THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING THE RIGHTS OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS.
As we all know Bill Clinton completely lost his cool when confronted by #BLM over the consequences his 90’s crime bill. So far many of the pro-Clinton arguments have been that Bernie Sanders also supported the bill and voted for it to claim that it was responsible for the major drop in crime that has occurred since that time. President Clinton himself argued in support of his wife Secretary Clinton ‘Super-predators” using two egregious strawmen, 1) that the bill was focused on inner-city drug kingpins who used 13-year-olds as their murderous foot soldiers instead to massively incarcerating thousands of non-violent low-level drug offenders for decades longer than whites who were caught with the exact same amount of drugs by a 100-to-1 disparity and 2) that anyone who complains about that fact really doesn’t care about dead black kids who haven’t been killed by cops.
Well, Mark Lamont Hill expertly shut all that bullcrap down today on CNN when debating a particularly noxious surrogate for Bill’s point of view Heather MacDonald. [No, She’s not from wife’s campaign from what I can tell.].
Just to level set, this is what we’re really talking about.
Congress did a serious injustice when it imposed much tougher penalties on defendants convicted of selling the crack form of cocaine — the kind most often used in impoverished, minority communities — than on those caught selling the powdered form of the drug that is popular with more upscale users.
In what’s known as the 100-to-1 rule, federal law mandates a 10-year sentence for anyone caught with 50 grams of crack, about the weight of a candy bar. To get a comparable sentence, a dealer selling powdered cocaine would have to be caught with 5,000 grams, enough to fill a briefcase.
The federal crack statute was passed during the height of the so-called crack epidemic of the 1980s, when it was widely, but mistakenly, believed that the crack form of the drug was more dangerous than the chemically identical powdered form. Congress compounded the inequity by making crack cocaine the only drug that carries a mandatory minimum sentence for possession, even for first-time offenders. Laws that were supposed to focus federal efforts on locking up drug kingpins have swamped federal courts with small-time cases, many involving couriers and street-corner sellers.
The United States Sentencing Commission, the bipartisan body that sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, urged Congress to eliminate the sentencing disparity more than a decade ago. The commission recently established new guidelines that would provide more lenient sentencing for crack offenses.
Here’s how Hill responded to the claim that the Crime Bill fostered the kind of police success we saw in New York using statistical methods such as CompStat.
Hill: But the crime bill wasn’t about a policing revolution of information, it was about police revolution of aggressive policing, over-incarceration, draconian sentencing, and racial disparate treatment, that was the issue here. And yes, we should address black people who kill black people, that’s not the point. We’re not out here protesting black people who kill black people all the time because I don’t have the same expectation for the Bloods and Crips as I do police. I expect police to NOT shoot me. I expect police not to be the judge, jury and executioner on the open street. I expect politicians to engage in humane public policy making and that’s not what has happened. And that’s where Hillary Clinton must be held responsible.
Once again, not to avoid responsibility and make it look like any black person that criticizes her somehow doesn’t care about safety or crime in the community is another irresponsible and dishonest move by the Clinton’s that I find so profoundly frustrating.
Which I think speaks for me quite well. In full disclosure I supported the Clinton Crime Bill which included the assault weapons ban and his 100,000 Cops initiative. It all seemed like a good idea at the time, it just didn’t work out as planned.
Following Hill’s statement MacDonald attempted to make the claim that…
The representation of blacks in prison is due to crime rates, there is not disparate treatment in the criminal justice system. Police go where the crime is, they wish they didn’t need to go into these neighborhoods but they there to save lives not to oppress people.
Which is frankly, Bullshit! And Hill responded predictably.
Hill: That’s simply not true.
Unfortunately that little cop-oganda bomb was dropped right at the end of segment and he wasn’t able to follow up however even the data from CompStat shows that using NYPD “Stop and Frisk” policy, which she is expressly defending, almost 90% of those targeted by police in these stops had Done. Nothing. Wrong.
In 2012, New Yorkers were stopped by police 532,911 times. In 55 percent of the cases, the suspect was black and in 10 percent of the cases, the suspect was white. In 89 percent of the cases, "the suspect was innocent," said the NYCLU.
Similarly in 2011, 53 percent of New Yorkers who were stopped and frisked by police were black, and 9 percent were white. In 2010, 54 percent of New Yorkers who were stopped and frisked were black, and 9 percent were white.
Approximately 90 percent of New Yorkers who were stopped and frisked between 2010 and 2012 were "totally innocent," according to the NYCLU's analysis.
A program with a 90% failure rate really isn’t something anyone, anywhere, should be endorsing.
Further in certain neighborhoods such as Brownsville, Brooklyn the equivalent of 93% of the residents have been stopped but in reality a subset of young male blacks have been stopped over and over and over again, some as many as 20 times.
This is harassment, this IS Oppression. Text book definition.
What’s even worse is the excuse is that this is being done “protect those communities” by removing drugs and guns but even the NYPD found almost twice as many guns among the minuscule number of whites they stopped.
The NYPD and politicians have repeatedly justified the racial disparity in stop and frisks saying that they cops essentially go where the guns are, i.e. minority neighborhoods. Yet, only 1.9 percent of frisks in 2011 turned up weapons and interestingly, according to the NYCLU, “a weapon was found in only 1.8 percent of blacks and Latinos frisked, as compared to a weapon being found in 3.8 percent of whites frisked.”
And it’s not just in New York.
TABLE 13: Enforcement actions taken by police during traffic stops, by demographic characteristics of drivers, 2008
Police Stop Data from Bureau of Justice Statistics
As shown by the chart above nationwide, police stop black motorists twice as often regardless of the likelihood of having committed a driving offense. They search them three times as much yet don’t find drugs on them as often.
For years, police records have shown that black drivers tend to be less likely than white drivers to turn up with guns or drugs when searched at traffic stops. At the same time, black drivers are three times more likely than white drivers to be subjected to these searches, according to a 2013 federal survey.
They also ticket Black drivers twice as often and resort to non-lethal uses of force against them three times more often as shown here.
TABLE 18: Contacts with police in which force was used or threatened, by demographic characteristics, 2002, 2005, and 2008
Police Use of Force
And then Police kill black men, even when they’re unarmed, about four times more often.
Estimated Rate of Arrest-Related Deaths by Homicide, 2003-09
Arrest Related Deaths by Race
There are no crime stats that support any of this, besides the fact almost everyone distorts those completely out of wack, because quite often it’s happening from the stops, to the searches, assaults and killings to people who are less likely to have done anything wrong but are being targeted anyway, which is the very definition of “disparate treatment” and when people shout about it, it certain can be annoying and frustrating to listen to. They can get on your nerves. It can make you mad and you might lash out as did Bill Clinton, even though today he seems to have “almost” apologized for it. I don’t blame him for getting upset, I get that.
But People shout this because if they don’t it seems pretty clear just about no one listens, and just about no one does anything about it. At least not yet they haven’t.
Friday, Apr 8, 2016 · 3:41:08 PM PDT · Frank Vyan Walton
This is a longer version of the segment, warning — please try not to punch the screen as the Clintonite/Cop-ologist Heather McDonald is talking. You’ll just hurt your screen, and your hand.
Friday, Apr 8, 2016 · 5:59:17 PM USMST · Frank Vyan Walton
More details of Bill’s “Apology”.
“Now I like and believe in protests. I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t cause I engaged in some when I was a kid,” Clinton told a crowd of more than 1,000 on the campus of Penn State Behrend. “But I never thought I should drown anybody else out. And I confess, maybe it’s just a sign of old age, but it bothers me now when that happens.”
“So I did something yesterday in Philadelphia. I almost want to apologize for it, but I want to use it as an example of the danger threatening our country,” the former president continued. [...]
“I rather vigorously defended my wife, as I am want to do, and I realized, finally, I was talking past [the protester] the way she was talking past me. We gotta stop that in this country. We gotta listen to each other again,” the former president said.
[...]
“I know those young people yesterday were just trying to get good television and they did. But that doesn’t mean that I was most effective in answering it,” Clinton said.
And he suggested the activists were on his side. “We can’t be fighting our friends, we got enough trouble with the people that aren’t for us,” he added, presumably referring to Republicans.
I thinks he makes, ultimately, a great point about “talking past other” — clearly his point about the crack-dealer was irrelevant to BLM’s point that Cops will stop, harass, frisk, assault and kill the dealers neighbor who has nothing to do with that guy without blinking or even recognizing their mistake.
You don’t have to be pro-drug dealer to oppose the not-dealer getting killed by cops.
I grew up in South Central, i *was* that guys neighbor and I repeated saw the police ignore them — literally drive right past them without stopping — but they would stop me, over and over again because I had a decent paying job and bought a decent looking car in that neighborhood. So I GOT THE COPS ATTENTION but the drug dealers next door didn’t. I’ve lived that, and anyone that has knows he was full of it. But I do appreciate he — kinda — knows he was full of it as he got worked up trying to defend Hillary circa 1994.
Saturday, Apr 9, 2016 · 1:43:47 AM USMST · Frank Vyan Walton
As posted in the comments Van Jones was also pretty hot about this, and has apparently been angry with Clinton since his “Sista Soldja” moment. Some of Bob Beckle’s reactions and eye-rolls are priceless.
Saturday, Apr 9, 2016 · 1:53:19 AM USMST · Frank Vyan Walton
The “Stop the Violence” movement was started in 1989 by KRS-One, as Van Jones points out they’ve been around but they get ignored. What #BLM has figured out is something they haven’t — how. to. get. coverage. And the truly sad fact, honestly, is that if they didn’t resort to lengths they have — nobody would be talking about them the same way they don’t talk about KRS-One or even the “Self-Destruction” video he wrote.
Saturday, Apr 9, 2016 · 2:01:19 AM USMST · Frank Vyan Walton
Instead of the above what we got back then was all the hysteria over Cop Killer by Bodycount. The reaction #BLM is getting now is the same one that Ice-T received back then.