Kamala Harris is the latest to get roasted for her record on being tough on crime, and while I don't know the details of her record and I am sure her more problematic stuff is post 1990s, I do think a lot of people seem to be forgetting how EVERYONE was on that let's get tough on crime talk in the 90s.

The idea that there were super-predators preying on people wasn't an outrageous notion at the height of the Country's murder rate in the mid 90s.

Menace to Society was praised for its realism in depicting life in the hood. Go back and watch it now and that movies seem like a cartoon exaggeration.

The CBC, despite their misgivings, ultimately supported the 1994 Crime Bill. John Lewis, closest thing we have to a living black saint, supported the Crime Bill.

Anyway, I understand it was more complicated than that. And I think more important than someone's old record is whether they see the errors of that approach and are able to adjust to new realities.


But when you have 20-year-olds who don't remember how we were all nuts about crime, berating politicians for their stance on crime two decades ago. I think that's also an oversimplification.

Anyway, on a similar note, there is this dope podcast called "crime machine" which talks about how smart policing helped drive down crime in the 90s and how the prinicipals of smart policing were subverted by Guiliani and morphed into Broken Glass Theory and the hideous stop and frisk practice and it reminded me of what reading the paper in the 90s was like and hearing crime story after crime story. It's a good podcast check it out.

Also made me think of the point I am trying to make here.







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