Trump Given The ‘Bipartisan Justice Award’ By Black Organization For ‘First Step Act’

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Trump Given The ‘Bipartisan Justice Award’ By Black Organization For ‘First Step Act’
Daily Caller, Oct 25, 2019

President Donald Trump will receive the 2019 “Bipartisan Justice Award” from a bipartisan organization of black leaders because of his work on criminal justice reform, the White House announced Friday.  The award will be presented at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina by the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center, a group founded by twenty black Republicans and twenty black Democrats in 2015.

According to a press release from the White House:

“The Bipartisan Justice Award is the highest honor given annually to a public servant who has demonstrated the ability to work across the aisle to achieve meaningful progress in reforming our criminal justice system. The 2019 Bipartisan Justice award winner is President Donald J. Trump for his Bipartisan leadership in the passage of the historic First Step Act. The award is being given by the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center, a non-profit organization founded by 20 Black Republicans and 20 Black Democrats in 2015, to elevate the issue of criminal justice reform above partisan politics.”

The award ceremony will reportedly take place during the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum, at which multiple Democratic presidential candidates are scheduled to appear to discuss their plans to tackle criminal justice reform.


More:  https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/25/trump-bipartisan-justice-award-first-step-act/

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The award ceremony will reportedly take place during the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum, at which multiple Democratic presidential candidates are scheduled to appear to discuss their plans to tackle criminal justice reform.

I'm lovin' this.   

[Chosen Daughter]

Nothing great about that unless you like releasing dangerous criminals.


Vote Alert: Release dangerous criminals from federal prisons
CR Staff · December 20, 2018

This vote was to pass the First Step Act, an expansive prison reform bill that reduces prison sentences for drug traffickers, increases the discretion judges have to avoid mandatory sentencing, and mandates that administrative agencies create ill-defined programs to accelerate release for federal prisoners.
A conservative approach to criminal justice should be rooted in downgrading nebulous, over-criminalized regulatory crimes while getting tougher on those who harm other people and fuel the violence in our major cities. Unfortunately, far from applying only to low-level, nonviolent, first-time offenders, as proponents suggest, the First Step Act offers front-end and back-end leniencies in sentencing and time served for many hardened criminals, including criminal illegal aliens.

This legislation:
Reduces mandatory sentences for many of the worst repeat drug traffickers targeted by federal prosecutors during the worst drug crisis in American history. Every repeat drug trafficker subject to the mandatory minimums, including high-level international cartel officials, will benefit from reduced mandatory sentencing regardless of their prior criminal history or the type of drug.

Expands the safety valve, which allows judges to avoid the mandatory sentencing altogether, to include people who potentially have a significant criminal history, as opposed to first-time criminals.

Offers numerous back-end early release programs that apply retroactively so that many (but not all) drug traffickers and many other dangerous criminals in the federal system can serve at least one-third of their sentences in home confinement or full release into parole. Roughly 4,000 felons, including those with extensive records of violence and gang membership, will be eligible for immediate release when this bill becomes law. Between front-end and back-end sentencing cuts, many repeat drug traffickers will see their sentences cut in half. 

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/vote-alert-release-dangerous-criminals-from-federal-prisons/

If that's how to win the support of African Americans no thanks.  The way would be to provide a better way of life to get people off drugs.  To give them hope, not a pass for committing felonies.

[Chosen Daughter]

Gang member released under First Step Act wanted for murder
Daniel Horowitz · October 8, 2019   

t’s exactly why proponents of the bipartisan leniency for violent drug traffickers and gang members didn’t want a transparent debate in Congress over the bill. It’s why they stifled all dissent and rammed the biggest change to federal prison sentencing in three decades through the House on a “suspension vote” with no debate or hearings during the last moments in session last year, when all eyes were focused on the pending government shutdown. They didn’t want you to know they’d be releasing people like Joel Francisco of Providence, Rhode Island.

In order to perpetuate the lie that we are somehow unjustly incarcerating too many people for too long and that there is a general over-incarceration problem, particularly in federal prison, phony conservatives joined liberals in selling the First Step Act as nothing more than “prison reform,” never telling the fact that it dramatically cut sentencing for thousands of hardened criminals. They told us it would only affect first time, low-level, non-violent offenders. In reality, federal prosecutors only pursue the worst criminals in a given area, who are often gang leaders fueling widespread violence, and convict them on drug charges. That is why CR is the only legislation scorecard that had the fortitude to score against this travesty of a bill.

In February, when the first wave of prisoners were released, Joel Francisco was among them. Who is Joel Francisco? According to Cmdr. Thomas Verdi, deputy chief of the Providence Police Department, quoted in the Providence Journal, he is a “cold, evil, violent person.”
“Some criminals deserve to spend their lives incarcerated,” Verdi said. “Joel is one.”

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/gang-member-released-first-step-act-wanted-murder/

 Sorry, did you expect me to post on Jared Kushner getting a First Step Act release a job at Walmart?

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[libertybele]

Nothing great about that unless you like releasing dangerous criminals.


Vote Alert: Release dangerous criminals from federal prisons
CR Staff · December 20, 2018

This vote was to pass the First Step Act, an expansive prison reform bill that reduces prison sentences for drug traffickers, increases the discretion judges have to avoid mandatory sentencing, and mandates that administrative agencies create ill-defined programs to accelerate release for federal prisoners.
A conservative approach to criminal justice should be rooted in downgrading nebulous, over-criminalized regulatory crimes while getting tougher on those who harm other people and fuel the violence in our major cities. Unfortunately, far from applying only to low-level, nonviolent, first-time offenders, as proponents suggest, the First Step Act offers front-end and back-end leniencies in sentencing and time served for many hardened criminals, including criminal illegal aliens.

This legislation:
Reduces mandatory sentences for many of the worst repeat drug traffickers targeted by federal prosecutors during the worst drug crisis in American history. Every repeat drug trafficker subject to the mandatory minimums, including high-level international cartel officials, will benefit from reduced mandatory sentencing regardless of their prior criminal history or the type of drug.

Expands the safety valve, which allows judges to avoid the mandatory sentencing altogether, to include people who potentially have a significant criminal history, as opposed to first-time criminals.

Offers numerous back-end early release programs that apply retroactively so that many (but not all) drug traffickers and many other dangerous criminals in the federal system can serve at least one-third of their sentences in home confinement or full release into parole. Roughly 4,000 felons, including those with extensive records of violence and gang membership, will be eligible for immediate release when this bill becomes law. Between front-end and back-end sentencing cuts, many repeat drug traffickers will see their sentences cut in half. 

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/vote-alert-release-dangerous-criminals-from-federal-prisons/

If that's how to win the support of African Americans no thanks.  The way would be to provide a better way of life to get people off drugs.  To give them hope, not a pass for committing felonies.

 

Agreed.  Perhaps he's hoping to gain some of the black vote.

[Chosen Daughter]

Agreed.  Perhaps he's hoping to gain some of the black vote.

Its making the country less safe.  While there may be a few success cases from this it really isn't a success as a whole.  It is a disaster for American citizens.  I don't know if any have noticed on this site but I am a great advocate for the African American community.  They have been enslaved by the Democratic party and made to believe that they can only achieve poverty and welfare.  Which has led to violence in Democratic run cities throughout America.

The clue is Bipartisan Justice Award.  Its only Bipartisan because it rewards the way Democrats have treated the African American communities in this country.  Their cities are rife with families dependent on welfare.  Their sons and daughters turn to dealing drugs and joining gangs.  They live in communities where they don't know if their children will come home because they can be shot on the streets.  And since they live off welfare their communities cannot afford to fund important school levies to provide better education.  As a whole it all works together to create a horrid living situation for whole communities.  And the cycle continues.

During the Obama Administration how many times did we see uprisings in the African American communities?  Blaming police for shootings.  And they riot and destroy their cities.  They have no ties to the cities.  They don't work there.

This award does nothing but reward all of what I said above.  And there is nothing to celebrate unless they can prove that it actually reduces crime.

NOT WINNING!  Just joining up with Democratic loosing.

[Chosen Daughter]

And Trump had touted being for law enforcement but law enforcement is against this bill.

Law Enforcement Comes Out Strong Against New FIRST STEP
Four orgs. issue letter opposing bill

Excerpt:

FIRST STEP previously earned strong opposition from groups like the NAAUSA and National Sheriffs' Association. Proponents of the new version scored a significant endorsement last week with the backing of the Fraternal Order of Police (although, as the Free Beacon previously reported, it is not clear if the bill will do what the FOP believes it will).

However, the Tuesday letter from law enforcement leaders indicates that the FOP may be a lone voice among its peers, joining as the Tuesday letter does with another critical letter from the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the Major County Sheriffs of America last week.

This latest objection from the law enforcement community, directed to Senate Majority and Minority Leaders Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), argues that little has changed in the latest version of FIRST STEP, meaning that law enforcement's opposition should be unwavering.

"Our review of the bill reflects no improvements that would reduce our multiple and serious concerns about its deadly and destructive impact upon public safety and our capacity to deter and prosecute crime throughout the country," the letter reads.

https://freebeacon.com/issues/law-enforcement-comes-strong-new-first-step/

Letters are linked in article.