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'''Source:''' Voter News Service exit poll, reported in ''The New York Times'', November 10, 1996, p. 28.

'''Source:''' Voter News Service exit poll, reported in ''The New York Times'', November 10, 1996, p. 28.

=====Crime Bill of 1994=====

==Crime Bill of 1994==

[[File:1994 Superpredator Act.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The Superpredator Act of 1994. Feinstein, Kerry and Biden are clearly visible with President Clinton. The bill is known for its sentencing disparities which led to mass incarceration of Blacks.<ref>https://fair.org/home/senate-crime-bill-unscrutinized-by-the-press/</ref>]]

[[File:1994 Superpredator Act.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The Superpredator Act of 1994. Feinstein, Kerry and Biden are clearly visible with President Clinton. The bill is known for its sentencing disparities which led to mass incarceration of Blacks.<ref>https://fair.org/home/senate-crime-bill-unscrutinized-by-the-press/</ref>]]

:{{See also|The New Jim Crow}}

:{{See also|The New Jim Crow}}

In the wake of the Central Park jogger attack, Democrats took action to deal with what they perceived  as a problem with "Superpredators." Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] boasted of his greatest legislative achievement passage of the 1994 Crime bill which locked up 10% of the Black adult male population of the United States.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/us/politics/joe-bidens-role-in-90s-crime-law-could-haunt-any-presidential-bid.html</ref><ref>http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/</ref>  

In the wake of the Central Park jogger attack, Democrats took action to deal with what they perceived  as a problem with "Superpredators." Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] boasted of his greatest legislative achievement passage of the 1994 Crime bill which locked up 10% o\\\\\\f the Black adult male population of the United States.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/us/politics/joe-bidens-role-in-90s-crime-law-could-haunt-any-presidential-bid.html</ref><ref>http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/</ref>  

When [[President George H.W. Bush]] asked for a record increase in funding to fight the [[War on Drugs]], Biden told a TV interviewer {{Quotebox|"In a nutshell, the President's plan does not include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, enough prosecutors to convict them, enough judges to sentence them or enough prison cells to put them away for a long time."<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-06/news/mn-1646_1_drug-war</ref><ref>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/first-step-act-skepticism.html</ref>}}  

When [[President George H.W. Bush]] asked for a record increase in funding to fight the [[War on Drugs]], Biden told a TV interviewer {{Quotebox|"In a nutshell, the President's plan does not include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, enough prosecutors to convict them, enough judges to sentence them or enough prison cells to put them away for a long time."<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-06/news/mn-1646_1_drug-war</ref><ref>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/first-step-act-skepticism.html</ref>}}