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Hi, I'm Mike Troy, host of the American Revolution podcast on the Airwave Media Network.

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platforms. I hope you will join me today on the American Revolution podcast. So I hope this

crime bill, when it passes, the Bidenatch crime bill, as it becomes law,

God willing, I hope that we will have ended once and for all this notion that is a hangover

from the 60s, that somehow Democrats are weak on crime and Democratic presidents are weak on crime and Republicans are tough on crime.

If we can keep our minimum mandatory sentencing provisions, if we can put more police officers on the streets,

if we can build more courts, have more prosecutors, if we will commit ourselves to be as outraged about crime as the people who are

victims are outraged, I believe we're going to begin to turn the tide and I believe this bill

is going to be an important part of it. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,

or, as you may know it, the 1994 crime bill was hailed as a solution

to snuff out the crime problem.

This piece of legislation, depending on who you ask, was just what the people needed.

It was the government finally doing something about crime.

It was bipartisan, and it was proof that even Democrats weren't afraid to lock people up.

Crime did fall, but it didn't fall gracefully.

And quiet as it's kept, it was slowly starting to decline even before the bill was passed.

But like many policies before it, the bill was not without consequences. And today,

we are still living amidst the negative impacts that are too often just dismissed as collateral

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