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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are missing the point. We don’t expect Trump to fix anything. Sticking it to the Council is good enough for me.[/quote]

I think we can reasonably expect Trump to require meaningful penalties for crime, imposed swiftly and consistently, without regard to whether the criminals have a certain skin color, grew up in poverty, are uneducated, come from broken families and or from families which fail to model responsible behaviors, or have other backgrounds.  The focus will be on whether someone is a criminal.  If they are, penalties apply, not excuses which justify an absence of meaningful penalties.

That's not to say that social conditions don't contribute to crime, but a good start would be suppressing crime which does exist, even if it'd also be good to simultaneously try to address root contributors so that over time perhaps criminal behavior would decline.  Until it does, though, it's insufficient to excuse it and to provide an environment where it can continue.  [/quote]

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