Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason announced that the Justice Department will no longer use the terms “felon” and “convict” to refer to individuals convicted of crimes.
Well, they could always go the Illinois route and call them “Governor”.
Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason announced that the Justice Department will no longer use the terms “felon” and “convict” to refer to individuals convicted of crimes.
Well, they could always go the Illinois route and call them “Governor”.
“person who committed a crime” and “individual who was incarcerated”
Here’s my issue, as a former professional within the criminal justice system. Those terms don’t imply conviction or guilt.
You can commit a crime and be found not guilty for 1,000+ reasons. You can be wrongfully incarcerated.
However, the overwhelming number of people in jail were convicted because they were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Watering it down deliberately undercuts the soundness and fairness of a first world judicial system that lets far, far more guilty go free than convicts the innocent. It’s disrecpectful to the rest of the criminal justice community.
Now that I got that off my chest…
So, is this just signaling to the AP how they should describe Hillary, after the email investigation is completed?
…those terms will now be used to refer to conservatives.
So the Justice Department is using the same term, “person who committed a crime”, for Jeffery Dahmer and Martin Luther King. Got it.
Watering it down deliberately undercuts the soundness and fairness of a first world judicial system…”
Exactly! And that’s why they’re doing it.
It’s weird, when they changed the name from GLOBAL WARMING™!!11!!!1! to “climate change” they got mad at people who assumed it changed the meaning of the “problem” but here they seem to think that if you call a scumbag criminal something else, they’ll magically turn into something else.
If you drive 66 mph, you’re a person who committed a crime.