{"id":270,"date":"2017-02-28T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:39:10","slug":"just-as-we-thought-sessions-on-he-move-watch-prison-population-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/270","title":{"rendered":"Just As We Thought, Sessions On he Move… Watch Prison Population Rise…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red alert. AG Sessions signals return to tougher stance on crime, including federal marijuana laws. Can you see the WOC (war on crime) and the\u00a0WOD (war on drugs) again rapidly escalating\u00a0an already ridiculously high prison population<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Must be the good old USA\u00a0has the\u00a0highest criminal\u00a0citizenry in the world. Or, maybe we’re simply the nation who enjoys criminalizing sh*t that really just isn’t criminal?<\/p>\n

You be the judge.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s attorney general said Tuesday the Justice Department will limit its use of a tactic employed aggressively under President Obama \u2014 suing police departments for violating the civil rights of minorities.<\/p>\n

“We need, so far as we can, to help police departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness. And I’m afraid we’ve done some of that,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

“So we’re going to try to pull back on this,” he told a meeting of the nation’s state attorneys general in Washington.<\/p>\n

Sessions said such a move would not be “wrong or insensitive to civil rights or human rights.” Instead, he said people in poor and minority communities must feel free from the threat of violent crime, which will require more effective policing with help from the federal government.<\/p>\n

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“We need to return to the ideas that got us here, the ideas that reduce crime and stay on it. Maybe we got a bit overconfident when we’ve seen the crime rate decline so steadily for so long,” he said.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, Sessions said he is reviewing the Justice Department’s current policy toward enforcing federal law that prohibits possession of marijuana, but has made no decision about whether to get tougher.<\/p>\n

His opposition to legalization is well known, and he emphasized it during an informal gathering of reporters . “I don’t think America will be a better place when more people, especially young people, smoke pot.”<\/p>\n

States, he said, can pass their own laws on possession as they choose, “but it remains a violation of federal law.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Red alert. AG Sessions signals return to tougher stance on crime, including federal marijuana laws. Can you see the WOC (war on crime) and the\u00a0WOD (war on drugs) again rapidly escalating\u00a0an already ridiculously high prison population? Must be the good old USA\u00a0has the\u00a0highest criminal\u00a0citizenry in the world. 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