Hochul’s hilarious Council on Community Justice shows she’s nothing but Gov. Gaslight

[Kamaji]

Hochul’s hilarious Council on Community Justice shows she’s nothing but Gov. Gaslight

By Bob McManus   
July 20, 2023

Here’s an ironic coincidence.

Just about the same time a random maniac was beating people with a board at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared it to be Pretrial Probation and Parole Supervision Week in the Empire State.

Good move, Kat!

Because everybody knows that there can never be enough pretrial probation and parole.

Especially when random maniacs are beating people with boards everywhere from Buffalo to the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.

But wait — there’s more.

Hochul also dipped into her sack full of non-solutions and pulled out a task force — the go-to deflector shield for clueless public-policymakers everywhere.

So your streets are filling up with bullet-punctured teenaged gangbangers; your straphangers are battered and bloody; your shop shelves regularly are stripped bare by thieves; your parks are full of overdosing junkies and there’s a tourist-stalking, knife-wielding lunatic wandering loose in Times Square?

Not to worry: Gov. Gaslight’s spanking new State Council on Community Justice will soon be studying the problem.

Its mission? “To further improve effectiveness and fairness of the state’s criminal justice system.”

Now the last time Albany tackled “fairness” in the criminal-justice system, it was 2018, and the result was a statewide explosion in violent crime that persists to this day.

One mark of this can be found on curbsides all across the state — those sad little arrays of rain-spattered teddy bears and guttered-out votive candles memorializing murdered teenagers.

These also speak directly to what happens when the English language is turned inside out to support dogma-driven policy.

Really, no one is against criminal-justice “fairness” in the commonsense meaning of the term: equal application of the penal law for accused criminals on behalf of crime victims themselves.

But what happens when “fairness” is redefined to exclude victims from consideration — and then to judge outcomes based primarily on racial identity and ethnic-group membership?

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/hochuls-hilarious-council-on-community-justice-shows-shes-nothing-but-gov-gaslight/

[mountaineer]

"Community Justice" is like social justice - meaningless word salad. It's either justice or it isn't.

[Kamaji]

"Community Justice" is like social justice - meaningless word salad. It's either justice or it isn't.

Yup.  And more often, appending an adjective to the word "justice" is a means of disguising actual injustice.