SuperHillary! to the rescue: Clinton vows to cut murder rate in half
Just as soon as she’s done creating a gazillion new jobs, fixing Iraq, and saving every last homeowner from the subprime crisis, SuperHillary will get right to work–on Day One–slashing the murder rate in half in America’s most crime-ridden cities. There is nothing, nothing that SuperHillary can’t do. She’s got the experience. The know-how. The ability to dodge imaginary bullets and combat American Misogyny while battling sleep deprivation. “It’s not easy,” but she cares so darned much. So, how will she cut the murder rate? 100,000 new police officers, of course! Wait a minute. Been there, done that, debunked that.
Next up: Midnight basketball!
Hillary Clinton on Friday accused President George W. Bush of spending billions of dollars to police Iraq’s “civil war” while cutting crime fighting in dangerous US inner cities.
The Democratic hopeful vowed to cut the murder rate in big cities by half if she becomes president, promised 100,000 new police officers on the streets, and laid out steps to cut America’s huge prison population.
“It is a sad day in America when the president can find hundreds of billions of dollars to police another country’s civil war, but cuts funding for police officers right here at home.”
“We deserve better,” said Clinton in a speech in a mostly African-American district of Philadelphia, a gritty northeastern city in Pennsylvania, which holds a Democratic primary on April 22.
As well as boosting police ranks, Clinton would spend money to try to reduce gang violence and drug markets, and would promote an initiative to crack down on illegal gun trafficking.
She would also spend a billion dollars to try to prevent prisoners reoffending, particularly targeting juvenile convicts.
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If she couldn’t do anything about the murder rate in Ft. Marcy Park, why should we think she can do something about the national murder rate?
Not to be confused with the underrated Guttenberg vehicle Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol.
Is this like the time she promised to bring 200+ thousand jobs to upstate NY which has been suffering from an economic down turn for the past decade?
It didn’t take Shrillary long to break her jobs promise during her senate career. She hadn’t foreseen unknown factors that would make job creation more difficult.
I guess she hasn’t foreseen that border enforcement and telling the black community to strengthen their family units and stop relying on the government dole might do wonders for crime prevention.
Do you think she’ll ever say that to this most sought after identity group to the Dems?
I surprised she can tie her own shoe’s.
I’m still mystified as to where this billion dollars is going to come from, on top of all the other billions of dollars she’s promised.
Even if taxes were raised to 100%, there wouldn’t be enough money coming in to the government to even begin to pay for all the promises - especially with all the taxpayers now out of work and moving to the dole.
Smoke and mirrors sometimes just aren’t enough.
Why is this so reminiscent of that IBM commercial based on the “Camelot” theme?
Arthur: “Are you suggesting we throw money at the problem?!?”
Consultant Ned: “Precisely!”
But hey, at least she’s not promising to get Christopher Reeve to walk again, or to raise him from the dead. So she’s got Silky Pony beat!
she’s so desperate, i almost feel sorry for her.
she’s done everything but promise drug addicts another hit.
Wait a minute! I thought police were paid by state and local governments.
Go for it hc. Cut the murder rate in half? Deport illegal gangs, give law enforcement more authority to deal with murders, take guns out of the hands of criminals and put guns in the hands of every law abiding citizens to defend themselves. That is a way to start.
L
Liberals don’t even believe HRC these days. Is she angling for the “Jerry Springer”/”Cheaters” demographic?
What, is she going to call off Arkancides? That should reduce the amount of murders.
#7 said:
True, until you get the Fed involved in doling out patronage funds for pet projects like midnight basketball or 100,000 more “cops” on the street. (15 years later, I wonder how much of that taxpayer money went to either basketball or more “cops.”)
Hillary’s obviously been studying the effect that Jimmy Carter’s Federal “Department of Education” has had on national test scores since 1978.
Liberals seem to insist on ignoring the laws of economics and human psychology.
Bloghooligan, she’ll switch on the Columbian trade deal so the addicts will get their fix. It’s just a matter of time before the wind switches direction.
She will soon, especially since most can vote. A bong in every backpack. Lines, not fines. No needle is illegal.After all, drug addicts are people too!
I’m waiting for her to suggest the US confiscate frozen terrorist assets, and use them to fund “enhanced policing”…of course, none of the policing efforts will be in the white collar crime area…that would be too close to home for many politicians.
By the way, that picture of Hillary lifting weights is so obviously a photo shop…her thighs are MUCH larger than that, and Greece doesn’t make a lifting outfit in her size.
As well as boosting police ranks,
Does her plan involve securing our boarders…..? That would be a good start….use that money to secure the boarder?
No?…..
I wanted to slap that woman silly after hearing the way she was talking to General Petraeus!
Add keeping abortion legal to that list.
Is she going to personally confiscate the guns she bans from all the criminals?
I’ve seen those legs before - oh yea, at Carnegie Hall, holding up a Steinway…
The smartest woman in the world. Why is everyone having a hard time believing that.
“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away!” Concealed Carry Saves Lives. Not more police.
Well, it’s about time concealed carry laws were passed in those cities!
Oh, wait… it’s Hillary… never mind.
Those seem like contradictory goals to me.
OT: Please no more spandex shots of Hillary. Loss of appetite.
Why spend anything on crims, why not spend it on hard-working law-abiding Americans, you know, the ones that actually deserve it?
Send to crims to a remote island and leave them there. They gave up their rights the moment they broke the law.
They don’t make spandex strong enough to hold up her hinder.
Is she desperate or what!
First she’s going to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and then presto chango, she’ll be able to cut the military and have a peace dividend just like Bubba.
Can’t be Hill, ankles too skinny…
That’s the first thought that came to my mind.
I have a question: Why is it every time I hear HRC or OBH make a promise to some group or another, Styx’s song “To Much Time On My Hands” plays in my head?
Just a thought.
#3 emjem24 said:
Good point. Tim Russert addressed this during a debate and detailed that upstate NY has actually suffered a decrease in employment since she promised an increase of 200,000 jobs to the region.
By comparison, I suppose this means that crime will actually spike 25% when Clinton promises a decrease of 50%.
Yoo-hoo, is there a mathmetician in the house?!
And we all know how reliable a Clinton-made vow is.
Ain’t that the truth…
cpodug, she is going to raise everyone’s taxes, put in a bunch of tax shelters for her rich friends so they can hide their money. That will end up raises taxes for the lower middle class and working class.
Of course she is going to call this taxing the rich. See it is easy when you have no conscience.
Let’s do the time warp again! So her hubby couldn’t do it, she’ll be able to do it with the same exact policies? Okayyyyy.
Not when you consider the fact that her pre-cogs will begin policing future crime in order to reduce the murder rate. And once people realize that you can go to prison for almost committing a crime, well, people won’t commit any more crimes. Voila. Problem solved.
/sarc off
It can be done. Just create the socialist society you’ve always dreamed about, Hillary, where people walk around like zombies, controlled all day by the government (Clinton). 1984 and “Animal Farm” together. No crime, no poor, no rich, just plain people staring blankly, blindly doing the job assigned to them, and then going home to a place with no kids (mandatory abortion), to start all over again the next day. Yup, could cut the murder rate quite a bit, not to mention emptying the prisons.
So what, is she going to gas every single prisoner? That would certainly do it. Empty the prisons AND cut down on murders in one fell swoop!
Or maybe she’ll just stop having people like Vince Foster killed.
remember him? he’s the guy that supposedly blew his brains out at his desk, cleaned up the blood and brain matter off the wall behind him, then went across the street to the park and died…. and it was ruled a suicide.
How did he manage to do that?
Maybe it is the same mechanism that allows all those dead democrats to crawl from their graves every year to vote…..
There’s the ticket! become a Democrat and you’ll never die! You’ll just be Undead….
Can she make those damn Leprechauns give up their gold too?
Other Side..
if you keep abortion legal, all that does is destabilize the family..
I have the perfect candidate for Shillary’s Crime Czar……drum roll……Antonio “I’ll just keep letting US citizens die in my city for the greater good of Mexico” Villar. He should be able to run this program…right into the ground. If he is not to busy bang’in another Telemundo propagandist.
One way to cut it is for her to stay out of office. It would cut all sorts of crime.
Collin
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Then I guess it’s just a coincidence that the drop in u.s. crime started in 1992 just 18 years after Roe v. Wade.
Since 80% of murders are among related parties it appears that Hillary has found a way to eliminate crimes of passion. She is qualified at this given that she has no passion and has not murdered her husband.
You want to cut the murder rate in half? It’s easy, and it’s been attempted before but shut down for being successful.
1) you promptly and publicly execute murderers. (over one third of all murders are committed by repeaters) Do it by public hanging with TV and everything. Those who torture and maim before killing get burnt at the stake (I’m not kidding)
2) you promptly and publicly execute every gang member caught with an illegal gun on their person.
3) you make sure all the young people see at least one public hanging. After they’re done puking on their shoes, they’ll get the idea
Really bad people need to be treated really badly. Anything else leads to a “so what?” attitude to punishment and you get today’s results.
I’m thinking that if John Lott is right, it’d be WAY more effective to issue free handguns and concealed carry permits to everyone in those cities…
And I thought that conservatives are always getting bashed by the liberals for creating a police state and she wants to go ahead and add ANOTHER 100,000 cops on the streets and the libs are cheering?
Just sayin’
I’m on board. Let’s give it a go,
Wasn’t that attempted in Saddam’s Iraq?
From what I remember “she who must not be named” has a million solutions to the ills of this country we poor dumb taxpayers can’t afford them all. Every time one of the three stooges running for POTUS open’s their mouth the keep talking about more government programs that will eventually bankrupt the American taxpayer. We are so screwed come January no matter who wins.
Sounds good to me.
Let me translate this to Clinton-ese: “I’ll be confiscating personal defense guns in America, violating the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution. I expect to have collected 50% by the end of my first term, in 2012. Ergo, I will claim 1/2 reduction in murder. Yep, that’s exactly what will happen, I’m so smart.”
I’m with Chuck..
Hanging is one of the quickest and painless ways to die.. i.e. not cruel and unusual.. unless you are a liberal puke watching it..
public hangings for people on death row after a week of their appeal, singular, then on with the long drop and a sudden stop..
save the Taxpayers money.. hell, if that happened, I would say that the politicians have earned that CAL raise for that decade.
TOS.. I think you mean, if you PRACTICED FREE SPEECH and CRITIZIED SADAM, then you would have been hanged from the neck until dead..
hanged? or hung?
The word is “hanged”. We’re too “touchy-feely” and sensitive to have public executions. It must be done privately, with as little trauma to the audience as possible. The heck with the criminal. Personally, given a choice, I’d rather be hanged than given the needle. Slowly watching the chemicals coming down the tube, is torture to me. An open trapdoor, a quick “snap” and it’s all over. Firing squad is another way, I would prefer; over in a second. No watching the bullets slowly coming toward me. Pretty painless ways. Better than slowly going to sleep, thinking about it.