Time reports a major policy address given by Hillary Clinton. Its article starts:
Hillary Clinton called on Wednesday for broad criminal justice reform and renewed trust between police officers and communities, reflecting the former first lady's evolution from supporting the policies instituted by her husband two decades ago...
In part of her speech, Ms. Clinton said (emphasis added):
It's a stark fact that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, yet we have almost 25 percent of the world's total prison population. The numbers today are much higher than they were 30, 40 years ago, despite the fact that crime is at historic lows.
I will save for a later post any discussion of the mind-bending density of the "despite" remark. For now, I want to focus on this line in the Time piece:
Clinton planned Wednesday's speech in November, months before she announced her candidacy, according to former New York Mayor David Dinkins, who introduced her.
That would be the same David Dinkins whose stewardship became a catchword for incompetence principally because of the sky-high amount of crime during his administration. It took Dinkins only a single year in office to "achieve" the highest number of murders in one year, 2245, ever recorded in New York City. Last year, after two decades of Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, the number was 328.
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