frugal-one
9-27-20, 5:18pm
Interesting that a person cannot access trump's database to show his remarks relating to his view of law and order.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/905916276/how-trumps-law-and-order-message-has-shifted-as-he-seeks-a-second-term
trump took out an ad May 5, 1989....
Trump's first major foray into public commentary on crime happened in 1989. Trump, then a real estate developer, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the death penalty against five Black and Latino boys accused of attacking a woman in Central Park.
"What has happened to law and order ...?" Trump said in the ad. "Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of 'police brutality,' which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's."
The five boys accused of the crime were exonerated years later. Trump has never apologized for the ad.
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Recently....
"It's playing on fear of Black people, of Black leadership, of Democratic leadership. It's embarrassing. It's awful," Lucas told NPR.
Lucas is a Black Democrat and took office as mayor last year. Kansas City has been one of the targets of some of Trump's rhetoric. The Trump administration recently sent federal agents to Kansas City to combat a spike in crime that included the shooting death of a 4-year-old boy.
Lucas said he was blindsided by the federal government's action, which he argued is a short-term political move that will not be a long-term solution.
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Trump's rhetoric and actions are not helping to deal with actual root causes of crime, like the lack of services and opportunities, said Tracy Siska, the head of the Chicago Justice Project, which pushes for data-based solutions to violence in the city.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/905916276/how-trumps-law-and-order-message-has-shifted-as-he-seeks-a-second-term
trump took out an ad May 5, 1989....
Trump's first major foray into public commentary on crime happened in 1989. Trump, then a real estate developer, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the death penalty against five Black and Latino boys accused of attacking a woman in Central Park.
"What has happened to law and order ...?" Trump said in the ad. "Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of 'police brutality,' which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's."
The five boys accused of the crime were exonerated years later. Trump has never apologized for the ad.
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Recently....
"It's playing on fear of Black people, of Black leadership, of Democratic leadership. It's embarrassing. It's awful," Lucas told NPR.
Lucas is a Black Democrat and took office as mayor last year. Kansas City has been one of the targets of some of Trump's rhetoric. The Trump administration recently sent federal agents to Kansas City to combat a spike in crime that included the shooting death of a 4-year-old boy.
Lucas said he was blindsided by the federal government's action, which he argued is a short-term political move that will not be a long-term solution.
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Trump's rhetoric and actions are not helping to deal with actual root causes of crime, like the lack of services and opportunities, said Tracy Siska, the head of the Chicago Justice Project, which pushes for data-based solutions to violence in the city.