Hillary Clinton acknowledges 1994 crime bill led to mass incarceration of minorities,

[insta8er]

tells Daily News editorial board the bill also did good things.

Hillary Clinton on Saturday conceded her husband’s 1994 crime bill had the unintended consequence of mass incarceration.

Speaking before the Daily News editorial board, Clinton said the bill did a lot of good things like adding more cops to the streets and creating a ban on assault weapons.


But she said it also led states to enact policies that resulted in more people, especially people of color, being imprisoned for nonviolent crimes.

“That was not as apparent at the time, but part of being a responsible decision maker is to keep track of what’s happening,” she said. “And now I think it’s clear there were some consequences that we do have to address.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-1994-crime-bill-led-mass-incarceration-article-1.2594729

[beam me up scottie]

1. She needs to check with Bill so they can get their stories straight.

[Zira]

9. hahahahahahah

rofl

[Fumesucker]

18. She cut Bill's legs right out from under him

What a pair!

[Uponthegears]

2. Now

all she needs to do is admit it was INTENTIONAL.

[Ferd Berfel]

3. You mean now, after the southern block is out of the way?

New Soap Opera: As The Triangle Turns

[djean111]

4. She wated until NOW to understand what the fuck they did? More like just is pissy because it

was brought up at all.

but part of being a responsible decision maker is to keep track of what’s happening,” she said. “And now I think it’s clear there were some consequences that we do have to address.”

What a pair.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. do i have to post the video of bernie saying exactly that would happen? oh, ok

[TCJ70]

11. Yeah, at least SOMEONE knew what the consequences would be...

...maybe we should elect him?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. good idea. might even catch on!

[EndElectoral]

6. Only took her 22 years to "track what's happening"

[beedle]

29. "Triangles" don't move as fast as circles

But they sure are more than capable of mowing down lots of innocent people who get in the way.

Triangulation: throwing the weak under the bus for political gain.

How do you like me now my AA firewall - Hillary 2016

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. One of these days we will get to discussing policing that benefits everybody...

One of these days we will get to discussing policing that benefits and protects everybody and discriminates against no one. What a wonderful world this will be. It is not beyond our grasp.

[JonLeibowitz]

34. One of these days...

like a Wednesday in mid-April 1994.

[Demsrule86]

8. Bernie Sanders voted for it also

What should he explain?

[Zira]

10. Source? I watched the speech where he addresses congress against it.

[TCJ70]

13. He gave several addresses about the consequences of this bill...

...but because it was an omnibus bill that contained other things like the Violence Against Women Act and various weapon bans and bans on certain types of particularly dangerous ammunition he felt he had to vote for it.

[Zira]

14. I actually found it and the person is correct.

here:

Both Sanders and Hillary Clinton, who was then serving as first lady, supported the crime bill at the time. Stephanopoulos, a former official in the Clinton White House, asked Sanders if he had any “second thoughts” about doing so.

“Well, that bill was one of these bills that had good things in it and it had bad things in it,” Sanders replied. “If I had voted against that bill, you would be asking me, ‘Bernie, why did you vote against the ban on assault weapons?’”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-super-predators-sanders_us_570a67a2e4b0836057a17d1e

[TCJ70]

17. That bill presented a serious rock and a hard place for anyone put in a position to vote on it...

...and while it did have negative consequences, I don't know what I would have done in Sanders shoes and don't envy that position.

[Zira]

19. Agreed.

[Zira]

15. Apologies, I found it.

You are correct.

[beam me up scottie]

20. He already did explain, what he opposed and what he supported:

[Warren DeMontague]

16. So does she want the government to stop locking up millions of people for drug use, or not?

[beedle]

31. One triangulation at a time please

Will it do her campaign any good in the immediate 2 weeks to call for the government to stop locking up people? She's not going to waste a good 'triangulation' issue of it's not going to bring about immediate positive results ... for her.

[Jitter65]

21. Yes. But that was not its intent. If whites had been stalked, arrested, prosecuted at the

rates they were using illegal drugs and committing robberies and murders there would have been a move to rescind many of the portions of that bill sooner. But one must still remember the many, many decent black working men and women and their elderly who were living in neighborhoods being terrorized by gangs, and yes some super predators. Clinton had pressure from both the right and the left to help curb crime and gun violence.

[beedle]

35. and it only took till the 2016 presidential elections

and pressure by someone who was against the lock ups since the bill was first introduced, to 'evolve' (like a light switch evolves from "on" to "off&quot to this new position?

So next big spike in crime, will she 'evolve' back to zealous imprisonment based almost entirely on race? No? How can we trust that since she 'evolves' so quickly back and forth in a (political) instance? If only we had someone we could trust not to flip-flop based on what's politicly convenient.

[morningfog]

22. Hillary: we brought them to heel.

[timlot]

23. Amazing how Sanders supporters go googling away to spin his vote. Meanwhile...

a First Lady has no vote. No vote for NAFTA, Crime Bill, or even her own health care proposal. She couldn't vote for it.

[beam me up scottie]

24. She's the one who promoted it using racist dog whistles.

Like saying those kids were "super predators" who must be "brought to heel":

How about you find one single instance of Bernie pushing that racist bullshit and get back to me?

[morningfog]

25. "We came, we saw, they heeled."

[beam me up scottie]

27. Yup. Heard that spun a dozen different ways and they're not done yet.

[Bonobo]

30. Amazing how my cat is a more complex thinker than some people here (hint). nt

[desmiller]

36. That's true that Hillary can't vote for it at the time, however...

each person, including Clinton, does not have to be in a position to vote to support it. n/t

[Aerows]

41. Nobody needs to google

if they have a memory.

Which many of us had prior to the internet.

It has expanded post internet, but stupidity isn't a strange curse that people who have always followed such matters are afflicted with.

It only afflicts dumb people, or people who are paid to be dumb.

[beedle]

26. Bernie accepts your apology! nt

[Politicalboi]

28. Unintended Consequence

Oh please. The private prison industry feeds the Clinton's. Such liars they are when exposed. Mission Accomplished. And us Dem's have to read this shit day in and day out. Lies, lies, lies. Whenever Hillary Coattails opens her mouth, she's lying.

[jfern]

32. Bill just said how great it was that it singled out crack dealers

[beedle]

37. White crack dealers mostly right?

See ... look at the white crack dealers (and one rapist) those nice black navel officers are escorting off to prison.

[Aerows]

33. Fucking up is the new black. n/t

[desmiller]

38. indeed.

[MisterP]

39. he apologizes AND wants to take credit for what he's apologizing for

they sit on so many fences that cattle around the country refuse to charge them because they're habituated