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Department. we were just trying to make sure its spent on things that kansas cityians and americans like. >> i hear you, but their pushback is your list aligns with a lot of what they were planning to do. >> right. what i would say is actually we want to make sure theyre spending in areas that were actually shown to prevent crime, community policing, neighborhood policing. investing for those in mental health crisis, working on reentry programs. buying a bunch of tanks, allah ferguson, does not ...

Spending on shelter and protection for people going through family violence, $4 million on response of mental health calls including medics. $400,000 for reentry programs for formerly incarcerated people. the mayor called it an investment on underlying causes of crime. in san francisco, the mayor announcing they would redirect some $3.74 million from law enforcement to small businesses. this is part of san franciscos dream keeper initiative to reinvest $120 million over the next two years in san...

Goodwill Industries works to create second chances for offenders Goodwill offers community-focused programs to help lower recidivism rates and keep the streets safe. Some of these programs include the Ex-offender Placement Program, EXIT-318 Reentry Program, CCC Reentry Program and the Young Adult Life Launch Program. (Source: NBC12) By Christian Piekos | April 19, 2021 at 5:24 AM CDT - Updated April 19 at 8:50 AM SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - The month of April is Second Chance Month in the U...

Highlights A summary of recommended improvements for law enforcement and the justice system from the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. The members were joined by more than 150 working group members, hundreds of subject matter experts, and a group of federal program managers. Article In the last days of the Trump administration, Attorney General William Barr released the final report on the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administr...

Importantly, we werent safer. it was costing us $700 million a year just in the louisiana. thats third only to education and health care. so we couldnt afford it. >> in 2017 edwards, a democrat in the deep south, signed bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation, the most ambitious in the states history. >> you have reduced your prison population. >> we have. but we are number two in the country. and its a process. >> to see this happen in a deep red state, law and order south, its stunning ...

Level? we talked about louisiana earlier. whats going on there? >> the states have been leading the way on this issue for quite some time. for many state, states that people dont think of as involved in prison reform, texas, my home state of north carolina, and others have looked at this issue for years and looked at a primarily from an economic point of view. they focus on the human cost and moral issues, but states quickly realize the cost of prison, which has risen 600% was something they cou...

You are cherished and respected by the american people more than youll ever ever know. so true. more than youll ever know. when i took office two years ago, one of my highest priorities was to reduce violent crime. in the two years before my inauguration, violent crime was up substantially, very substantially. and murders had increased by more than 20%. for this reason, my administration resurrected project safe neighborhoods, bringing together citizens groups, sheriffs and police departments to...

Inmates. >> will democrats continue to play politics and miss the opportunity to pass common sense legislation. joe borelli. how necessary is it? >> it doesnt help anyone incarcerated in this country. when you are sentencing someone to a lifetime of dependency without prospect of any future employment it doesnt benefit us at all. most people into the prison system and come out. when talking about reentry programs that is priority number one. >> they are facing an opioid epidemic in this country....

Brian senator grassley is working with senator durbin and pushing to do some kind of criminal justice reform, a couple of items, rehab in prison, shorter sentences for nonviolent criminals, are you for looking at the criminal justice system? >> i think theres always an opportunity to improve. certainly im for reentry programs where you prepare prisoner that go back to workforce. im not for shorter prison sentences and that minor offenses are less serious offenses, thats all in the mind of the be...

One party is in charge, the other party doesnt want to give them credit. but that looked overwhelmingly childish to me. what did you think? >> it really did, neil. let me say first, i pray theres one thing that we can all agree on, prayers for the victims and the family of the train wreck and lets pray for that. but it was very childish for 13 to not attend and for some of those that did attend to sit on their hands. im wondering if they were afraid they would hear something good and they would ...