No, Biden did not call Black people “superpredators”

Violent crimes committed by juveniles rose a precipitous 64 percent from 1980 to 1994 according to a March 2002 study by the Urban Institute’s Jeffrey Butts and Jeremy Travis. This figure includes forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, but to underscore the horror of this era, arrests for murder alone “jumped 99 percent during that time.” Continue reading No, Biden did not call Black people “superpredators”

After Mass Shootings, Donald Trump Says Prosecutions for Firearm Offenses Hit Record in 2018

First, the vast majority of gun crimes are handled by state courts, not federal courts, said Jeffrey A. Butts, director of the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. So Trump is talking about a small piece of the issue. Continue reading After Mass Shootings, Donald Trump Says Prosecutions for Firearm Offenses Hit Record in 2018