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Old 09-01-2020, 11:59 AM   #102
Pete F.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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1. The economic opportunity zones, disproportionately help blacks.
Black Businesses Largely Miss Out on Opportunity Zone Money
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/researc...ity-zone-money

2. criminal justice reform, disproportionately helps blacks.
That is one plus, here are some of the minuses.
Restricted clemency to only those who are celebrities, well-connected individuals, or have a personal affiliation with the president

Restarted federal executions after a 17-year informal moratorium on federal capital punishment

Secretly altered the risk assessment authorized in the FIRST Step Act to drastically reduce the number of federally incarcerated people eligible to be released to subdue the spread of COVID-19

Denied federal coronavirus relief funding to small business owners with a criminal record

Argued in court against people eligible for sentence reductions under the FIRST STEP Act

Jeopardized the FIRST STEP Act by underfunding its programs

Reinstated DOJ contracts with private prisons

Disbanded a program to create federal prison education systems

Closed halfway houses that help those incarcerated transition back to the community

Prohibited federal investigations of patterns of unconstitutional policing

Stopped assistance to police departments that voluntarily wanted reform

Eliminated restrictions preventing police departments from obtaining military equipment

Eliminated community-based violence prevention programs

Condemned public criticism of police by threatening that protestors “might find themselves without the protection they need”

Eliminated DOJ community policing program grants in proposed executive budget

Attacked prosecutors who are pursuing criminal justice reform in their communities

Ordered federal prosecutors to pursue the harshest punishments possible

Attempted to resume use of the federal death penalty and encouraged expansion of the death penalty in drug cases

Waged the same failed war on drugs from the 80s

Attempted to force federal job candidates to disclose participation in diversion programs

Failed to report on deaths in police custody as required by Congress

Disbanded the DOJ Science Advisory Board that provided evidence-based rigor to DOJ policies

3. School choice, disproportionately helps blacks.
That's quite a claim to make, do you have any supporting evidence or did you just hear that from Tucker?

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