Hillary knew and Bill knew exactly what would happen with the crime bill because numerous legislators (ie Bernie Sanders) and civil rights attorneys pointed it out.
Nothing about the crime bill was unintended....
Heres the reality: In the late 1980s and early 90s, the thriving crack market, combined with massive unregulated gun trafficking, drove a catastrophic spike in the murder rate in many inner cities. But except for a handful of provisionsassault-weapons regulation, grants for community policing and hiring copsmost of the 1994 crime bill had nothing to do with that problem. To read the bills full text today feels like stumbling upon a prophecy calling out everything that has since gone wrong with the criminal-justice system:
Subsidies for state prison expansion
A brutally inflexible federal three-strikes law ensuring that record numbers of prisoners would remain locked up for nonviolent and second-tier felonies
Abolition of federal Pell grants for prisoners college tuition, ensuring that paroled offenders return to their communities without having had a chance to advance their education past high school
Enthusiastic promotion of mandatory minimum sentences
13-year-old offenders tried as adults
A vastly expanded federal death penalty, imposed just as growing numbers of states were backing away from capital punishment
A tidal wave of military gear arriving at local police departments, bigger than the arsenals of many nations
None of thiscontrary to this years campaign mythologywas a fait accompli. Back in 1994, criminologists, civil-rights lawyers, community activists, and members of Congress all fought against various provisions of the bill. A hundred and sixty-nine members of the House, including Representative Ron Dellums, co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, voted against it. So did 34 senators.
That it passed at all was a tribute to the Clinton administrations cynical decision to bundle mandatory minimums and prison expansion with the Violence Against Women Act and weapons regulation, making it harder for uneasy progressives to just say no.
- See more at:
http://portside.org/2016-04-12/%ef%bb%bf-nothing-about-1994-crime-bill-was-unintentional#sthash.YW0adRem.OBKj0h8L.dpuf
Yet, Hillary still doesn't have the decency to promote decriminalizing marijuana.