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- In our series Justice For All, Lester Holt takes an in-depth look at the complicated legacy of the 1994 Crime Bill, the law that’s received new scrutiny and fresh backlash on the 2020 campaign trail.
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25 Years Later, The 1994 Crime Bill Is Still Being Debated | NBC Nightly News
The crime bill had funding for 100,000 new police officers. The second least expensive way of lowering crime is adding police officers. The least expensive path to lowering crime is increasing the number of concealed carry permit holders.
the 90's is when the chevy caprice and the crown vic where rivals in the cop car market
Why is this controversy? It did reduce the crime rates during the 90s to historical lows. The recent change to keep criminals in the streets is the one that should be considered controversial since it has increased the crime rate to historic highs.
It’s controversy because it ignores the root of the problem, it’s like them cutting down a tree but ignoring the branches and roots and only cutting the leaves, they took fathers out the homes, which left kids to follow the same path. If you don’t understand you don’t have family or close friends in these neighborhoods.
@@afrogamingofficial3779 Anyone who commits a crime must be locked in jail, regardless of whether is a father or not.
No it didnt reduce the crime rate,it literally increased incarceration(yes, there's a difference). 50 new federal offense were created in that so that get 50 more things you could go to prison for which increases the crime rate. How is there going to be less crime if there are so many laws you can up potentially breaking.
@@blackvillain4479 It did reduce the crime rates, all you have to do is look at the number. Compare the crime rates during the 90s to crime rates duribg the 80s and 70s.
@@mxkmxk7296 it didnt work in the long term incarceration rates went up since the bill went into effect. So you how can you say it reduced crime?
It's past it's sell buy date.
They are charging Snowden with an act from 1890 something though? They dredge up things when it's convenient.
Great bill
There’s still crime !
Not like it was in the 90s nothing can not pass the crimes in the 90s
Return of the SuperPredators.
I feel bad for trump
The Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. Black residents attacked Orthodox Jewish residents, damaged their homes, and looted businesses.?
1:47 and did you learn your lesson or are you gonna keep doing what you did
That 3strike rule seems crazy!
I support “3 Strikes” for serious violent crimes (let’s admit, by the time you commit three murders, you should probably be in jail for life), but the overzealous application of it to target non-violent drug possession and low-level drug distribution crimes and even trivial crimes (a Californian man got his third “strike” for stealing a slice of pizza) is stupid and not proportionate.
From what I read about the ‘94 Bill, it was mainly to target exceptionally violent crime committed by cartels and major gangs, but it’s been applied even to low level criminals and locked them up for way too long as Bill Clinton now admits.
The other, more unique purpose of the Bill was also as a political move to counter the image that the Democratic Party was “soft” on crime, particularly against conservative criticism.
@@andrewburgemeister6684 it’s a macro solution to a micro problem. Just like today those politicians who campaign against mass incarceration as if mass release of criminals is going to solve the problem that Has to be looked at at the granular level
@@sleeplessvirus I agree, they’re needs to be specific and well-defined solutions that cut through to the problem at hand.
“One size fits all” is disproportionate and a knee-jerk reaction, being reactive is worse than being proactive.
One of Trumps greatest achievement in office was Prison Reform. I hope every Democrat voter understands that. If they don't, please explain it to them in easy to understand language. God bless you have a good day.🙏🇺🇸
You know he opposed it at first?
@@milosniffer5293 Biden opposed certain racial integration policies for bussing but here we are.
@@zombies4evadude24 I like how you're the same type of person to hate "muh cancel culture" but try to get an own on someone for a position they had half a century ago
This country was bad in the 80s and 90ds that's why that bill was passed in the 90s.
But it also started mass incarceration of blacks #endthewarondrugs
Political talking point used to push their narrative. Some cities yes, not all.
@@jmjfanss so? You do the crime, you do the time. Regardless of color
@@javiergalloza8318 for surely but if you look at the history of the USA and how they put coke In those areas and put them in those areas it really shows how the us caused all these problems
@@Danny-cl4cl I don’t know much about coke, but crack was the biggest problem when it came to drugs in the 80s and 90s that effected the black community. That’s why the black community wanted crack dealers and user’s to get a longer sentence.
Lester I been watching news for years and I Hardly see people of Mexican Decent spoken about, I hope Lester you more Diverse