O'Malley: If you don't believe this you're not qualified to run a city—or wear a badge & carry a gun

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Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 1h1 hour ago
If you do not believe this, you are not qualified to run a city—or wear a badge & carry a gun. http://omly.us/om-urbanleague

related:

Martin O'Malley Speaks on Criminal Justice at Urban League
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251484001

Martin O'Malley answers questions on his qualifications to change the culture of law enforcement
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251484034

Martin O'Malley's Comprehensive Law Enforcement Reform Plan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251484008

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1. Are you ready to tell the entire country—not just the National Urban League or the NAACP—

EBONY: that you are ready to make addressing racism an important part of your campaign for presidency and, if elected, your presidency?

MO: Yes, I am and it’s been an important part of my entire calling to public service throughout my life. I think Dr. King summed it up when he said that one day, this generation of Americans will be called not only for the evil acts of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good. I think it’s irresponsible for us as citizens not to find ways to talk about this and I think that’s especially important in the public forum of selecting the next president of the United States. And that’s something that, as the mayor of Baltimore elected when our city had become the most violent in America that I’ve had a lot of experience with. And as governor, we reduced our incarceration rate. It was at a 20 year low and we did it by reducing recidivism by 15%. We restored voting rights to 52,000 people, we eliminated the death penalty and we decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. So I’ve had a long trajectory over 15 years in a very diverse space of talking about . And I tend to talk about them in the course of this campaign because this is part of the work we need to do to address what all of us share which is a pretty brutal racial legacy of injustice in our country that’s not limited to crime and punishment. It’s everything in America whether its’ education or housing or other things and I don’t know that we can address it together unless we do find ways to talk about it with one another.

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2. such an eloquent statement

...straight from the heart.


PolicyMic ?@PolicyMic
Martin O’Malley just unveiled his bold plan to fix the criminal justice system http://bit.ly/1fQjOSx

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3. kick

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4. K&R

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5. K&R. n/t