« on: April 12, 2008, 08:16:21 PM »
Oh my. I guess she thinks no one will notice that this is not a new idea? Not to mention that it failed!
Just as soon as she’s done creating a gazillion new jobs, fixing Iraq, and saving every last homeowner from the subprime crisis, SuperHillary will get right to work–on Day One–slashing the murder rate in half in America’s most crime-ridden cities. There is nothing, nothing that SuperHillary can’t do. She’s got the experience. The know-how. The ability to dodge imaginary bullets and combat American Misogyny while battling sleep deprivation. “It’s not easy,†but she cares so darned much. So, how will she cut the murder rate? 100,000 new police officers, of course! Wait a minute. Been there, done that, debunked that.
Next up: Midnight basketball!
Hillary Clinton on Friday accused President George W. Bush of spending billions of dollars to police Iraq’s “civil war†while cutting crime fighting in dangerous US inner cities.
The Democratic hopeful vowed to cut the murder rate in big cities by half if she becomes president, promised 100,000 new police officers on the streets, and laid out steps to cut America’s huge prison population.
“It is a sad day in America when the president can find hundreds of billions of dollars to police another country’s civil war, but cuts funding for police officers right here at home.â€
“We deserve better,†said Clinton in a speech in a mostly African-American district of Philadelphia, a gritty northeastern city in Pennsylvania, which holds a Democratic primary on April 22.
As well as boosting police ranks, Clinton would spend money to try to reduce gang violence and drug markets, and would promote an initiative to crack down on illegal gun trafficking.
She would also spend a billion dollars to try to prevent prisoners reoffending, particularly targeting juvenile convicts.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/11/superhillary-to-the-rescue-clinton-vows-to-cut-murder-rate-in-half/Debunkity bunked!
The funds come from what may have been Bill Clinton's most ballyhooed domestic program: Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, which he inaugurated in 1994 with a promise that, through federal grants for hiring recruits and buying equipment, it would put 100,000 new police on the streets. As crime rates declined during his time in office, he frequently claimed credit for COPS. In political terms, it was pure gold. By pushing the then old-fashioned conservative idea of cracking down on bad guys with armies of men in blue, Clinton did a huge amount to steal the law-and-order issue from Republicans. At the same time, he appealed to liberals with lots of syrupy rhetoric about "community policing," which emphasizes promoting good relations between cops and poor urban minorities—two groups that traditionally view each other with suspicion.
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The lack of any evident connection may be explained in any number of ways. It may be that the number of police added under COPs was too small to make a difference. It may be that the new hires were too widely distributed. Or it may just be that there is no necessary relationship between the number of cops and the number of robbers, which is the view of many experts.
Community policing was supposed to make police more effective by lending them the ever-present eyes and ears of ordinary people. And it may have. But the concept is vague enough that all sorts of activities can be portrayed as advancing it, whether or not they really constitute a change in the way police operate. Certainly more departments claim to be practicing community policing today than a decade ago. But how much that means is open to debate—as is COPS' role in the change. The NIJ study found only "weak evidence" that the program fostered community policing. In Illinios, the federal funds paid for Department of Natural Resources officers whose duties include teaching children how to fish and putting up deer crossing signs along highways. Many departments that have gotten large amounts of money from COPS, such as New York and Chicago, have been plagued with persistent complaints of excessive force against suspects—the opposite of what community policing promises.
Given the fear of street crime that gripped the nation a decade ago in the wake of the crack epidemic of the '80s, dumping a lot of money and police on the problem may have been a defensible response. Today, with terrorism the dominant anxiety and the promise of COPS still unproven, it's a luxury we can no longer afford.
http://www.slate.com/id/2058553/
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