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===The Biden Crime Bill===
===The Biden Crime Bill===
:{{Main article|Biden Crime Bill}}
:{{Main article|Biden Crime Bill}}
Democrat Sen. [[Joe Biden]] authored the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.<ref name="nytimes.com">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/us/politics/joe-bidens-role-in-90s-crime-law-could-haunt-any-presidential-bid.html</ref> His [[New Jim Crow]] bill incarcerated 2.5 million Black males, one-tenth of the Black male population,<ref>https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/could-joe-bidens-role-in-90s-crime-law-haunt-a-presidential-bid/</ref> destroying lives and families. The bill included the notoriously racist hundred-to-one sentencing disparity between crack and powder [[cocaine]],<ref name="c-span.org">https://www.c-span.org/video/?18528-1/violent-crime-control-act-1991</ref> and added more than forty federal [[death penalty]] crimes. Biden boasted “we do everything but hang people for jaywalking.”<ref name="books.google.com">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AK_DAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA141&dq=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&f=false The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America]'', Naomi Murakawa, Oxford University Press, Jul 10, 2014, p. 141.</ref>
===Superpredators===
===Superpredators===