does not protect gays or lesbians? sure, really what s happening is the department of injustice injustice. is functioning to oppose the civil rights of americans. they are doing it by singling out muslims and saying that the first might as well take a red pen to the first amendment because they are singling out people based on faith. imposing sentencing laws that we know have racist implications and for lgbt people, what they are doing is ridiculing us and saying we are unworthy of protection under the civil rights act. why? where is this coming from? the battle over discrimination has been going on for decades. how does this get settled? this right now feels like we re going backwards decades? unfortunately, that s what the justice department would like to do. but we will fight them. they have cases moving forward that the supreme court needs to
president obama s pardoning of people like alton mills, and i quote, president obama continues to abuse executive power in an unprecedented, reckless manner, to systematically release high-level high level drug traffickers and firearms felons, so-called low-level nonviolent offenders simply do not exist in the federal system. senator sessions, alton mills and many more just like him, do exist. so if you refuse to even acknowledge the fundamental injustice of many of our sentencing laws, why should you be entrusted with the most important criminal prosecution office in america? senator durbin, i think that is rather unfair. based on our relationship and how we worked together. in 2001, i introduced legislation very similar to the bill that you and i successfully made law. it would have reduced to 22 on
obama s warning to people like mills and i quote, president obama continues to abuse executive power in an unprecedented reckless manner to systematically release high level drug traffickers and felons, so-called low level non-violent offenders simply do not exist in the federal system you said. senator sessions, alton mills and many more just like him do exist. so if you refuse to even being knowledge the fundamental injustice of many of our sentencing laws, why should you be entrusted with the most important prosecution office in america? senator durbin, i think that s rather unfair based on our relationship and how we work together. in 2001 i introduced legislation very similar to the bill that you and i successfully made law. it would have reduced it to
patrolling some of the harder hit areas, almost 1,000, 970 is the net number they ll add to the streets and the hope is to try to change this ul can tour in the streets and the perception police have stopped. to be their jobs. whom sides went up 60 year over year. the police chief is talking about one of their bigger challenges the proliferation of illegal guns. they took 8,300 guns off the streets in 2016 and they say the laws, sentencing laws for folks who are carrying illegal weapons simply aren t strong enough so they re asking the legislature to help out. here is the police superintendent eddie johnson. we have to send a message to these individuals to not pick up a gun in the city of chicago. if you do pick up a gun and you use it, you ll be held accountable and right now we don t do that.
some of the sentencing laws, the minimums here are one year for illegal possession in cook county but what the authorities here in chicago are saying that the judges are handing out too light sentences and most people are not serving their full sentences. so that s onish auto you that they re going to try to attack here in 2017 working with lawmakers to increase penalties. just last week the police announced that all officers are going to be equipped with these body cameras and that they were going to move it up. how much sooner will they get the body cameras on the officers? they hope they will be a year ahead of schedule. one of the challenges they have to overcome these are manually activated so there s a chance in an event where a police officer has to use force that the police officer may forget to tn off the body camera so they ll work around details all is to drive the transparency issue into the