Sentences with phrase «on crime reform»

This smart on crime reform will provide 16 - and 17 - year - olds with the appropriate treatment and rehabilitation, instead of incarceration, to prevent future offenses.

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He then gave a passionate victory speech that sketched out a stronger global role for France and promised to waste no time making the national economy a much more business - friendlyplace, with controversial labour - market, pension, education and constitutional reforms, not to mention tougher measures on crime and immigration.

Candidate Hillary now talks up the need for criminal justice reform to undo the 1994 crime bill her husband championed; decries the wages on American workers of NAFTA and subsequent free - trade deals he ushered in; and calls for cracking down on a financial sector he helped deregulate.

WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

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Note: The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC) is now used in the budget in place of the Metropolitan Police Authority as the former replaced the latter on 16 January 2012 following the enactment of the relevant clauses in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

The paper, whose authoritarian instinct on issues of crime has long explained MPs» aversion to drug law reform, is now unashamedly liberal in its approach.

This year's state legislative session has produced no agreements on ethics reform, even though Albany is in the midst of a what some call a corruption crime wave.

Rice has been arguing that she's a tough - on - crime progressive and insisting that her efforts to reform the legal system at the local level have not only been successful, but would translate into a statewide model if she is elected to the post AG Andrew Cuomo is vacating.

«My background both in the private sector and as a sex crimes prosecutor and inspector general makes me uniquely qualified to deliver on the real reforms we desperately need in Albany.

233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others.

Deficit reduction, constructive welfare reform, more responsive public services, a measured demonstration that promises are being kept on crime and immigration — combined with a greater sense of direction and grip — all qualify.

«Eric Schneiderman has worked to reform our criminal justice system with «smart on crime» policies, like changing the Rockefeller Drug Laws and taking effective steps to stem the flow of illegal guns,» Koch said.

His campaign focused on four themes: welfare reform, tort reform, crime reduction, and education improvement.

The four sites together will provide space for 5,000 more inmates, even though there are currently 9,000 prisoners on Rikers — but de Blasio claims he can reduce the population in the coming years through bail reform, quicker trials, lowering crime and reducing recidivism.

Reforming a dysfunctional Roman curia which is, by various accounts, sclerotic, lazy, factional, self - serving, secretive or actively corrupt will be high up on the to - do list, but so may a decisive and dramatic public gesture, signalling the church's sorrow and repentance for its crimes.

Gangi's defining campaign issue is criminal justice reform, and he is highly critical of de Blasio's failure to comprehensively reform NYPD practices, especially so - called broken windows policing, which relies on intensive enforcement of low - level offenses in the effort to prevent major crimes.

The legislation we have proposed will continue to benefit the people of Wales as the Government focuses on reducing the deficit and restoring economic stability, reducing and preventing crime, proposing constitutional reforms, and modernising the pension system.

Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.

... for wasting billions on an NHS IT system that is billions over budget... for failing to reform welfare... for allowing Gordon Brown to impose a record tax burden... for presiding over massive family breakdown... for failing to build enough prisons to stem Britain's rising violent crime... for incompetence in Iraq... for surrendering to Sinn Fein... for ignoring moderate Muslim leaders in Britain... for releasing 1,000 foreign prisoners... for the Millennium Done...

He also supported a series of criminal justice reforms that eliminated criminal penalties on quality - of - life crimes like littering, loitering and public urination.

On Europe, crime, welfare reform, the economy and immigration, Labour's embrace of its working base has all too often turned into a curt nod and a fumbled attempt to change the conversation to cuts in manufacturing or the health service.

The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has said he will make a statement on the controversies surrounding the wanted former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms (PTFPR), Abdulrasheed Maina particularly on how he made his way back into the country.

The Home Office decision to skimp on the police and crime commissioner elections is prompting another bout of handwringing, this time from the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) over the threat from extremist parties.

On their many criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, they often converge — they have both called out the mayor's record on crime with similar rhetoric; they've both criticized the mayor's handling of the city's schools and homelessness; they both believe that jails should remain on Rikers Island, though reformed and modernizeOn their many criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, they often converge — they have both called out the mayor's record on crime with similar rhetoric; they've both criticized the mayor's handling of the city's schools and homelessness; they both believe that jails should remain on Rikers Island, though reformed and modernizeon crime with similar rhetoric; they've both criticized the mayor's handling of the city's schools and homelessness; they both believe that jails should remain on Rikers Island, though reformed and modernizeon Rikers Island, though reformed and modernized.

The governor also focused on a related reform proposal to give the state's District Attorneys more powers to prosecute corruption related crimes in state government, like bribery and embezzlement.

The government reform group Citizens Union, which has taken to running a corruption tracker on its website, will now have to add two more names to the dozens of lawmakers convicted of crimes over the past decade and a half.

A busy legislative session in Albany has failed to produce any agreements on ethics reform, even though Albany is in the midst of a corruption crime wave.

«The CRC is giving Floridians the opportunity to vote «yes» on several important issues including ethics reform in government, rights for victims of crime, prohibiting oil drilling in state waters, and necessary education reforms,» Chairman

Squinting into a bright noon sun, the former LaFayette School Superintendent reiterated the main talking points that have defined her candidacy up to now: more police on the streets to fight crime, mayoral control over a struggling school district, and ethics reform.

The Conservatives have clearly watered down their EU reform pledges on issues such as the repatriation of employment law, crime and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

According to her website, Lee's priorities included taxes, water, infrastructure, crime and employment, reforming school taxes to be based on income taxes not property taxes and raising the minimum wage.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today a range of reforms to suppress violence and crime in the city's troubled homeless shelter system — which include plans to have cops train on - site security staff and place an NYPD unit in charge of drawing up a comprehensive safety plan.

His party's indifference to the institution of marriage, opposition to education reforms and weakness on crime mean he has no route map to deliver the kind of society that can underpin a smaller state.

When you deal with major criminal justice reform, it's just inertia, because whatever you do, you're tough on crime, you're soft on crime, you're doing something and everyone hesitates.

To me, the cluster of issues that we have focused on are just basic — whether it be bail reform, raise the age of criminal responsibility, reform the institution of the grand jury, which goes back to the time of Magna Carta, wrongful convictions, ensure that not one single person is convicted of a crime that they're innocent of.

City lawyers last week asked Judge Shira Scheindlin to hold off on implementing the reforms she ordered to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy, warning that that the restrictions could lead to a huge spike in crime and saying her ruling against stop - and - frisk was «rife with errors of law.»

In the 1980s, Giuliani brought down mobsters and crooked pols on his way to City Hall, then broadened his approach to tackle crime, fix the budget and reform welfare and higher education.

Stec congratulated Stefanik and said he would work hard on behalf of both election reform and continue to fight against corruption in Albany, specifically seeking to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot by next year that would call for stripping elected officials convicted of crimes of their public pensions.

Therefore, instead of arguing — politicians in the two parties compromised and made agreements on taxes, welfare reform, crime reform, an assault weapons ban, and more.

With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos scheduled to be sentenced next month for public corruption crimes, and a recent poll showing that nearly 90 percent of New Yorkers believe unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government, Albany's political leaders have an obligation to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform, the good government groups said.

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On immigration reform in general, Faso said the United States «should normalize the status of people who are in the country illegally who have not committed a crime so that we relieve this anxiety and tension that exists.»

He is also to announce a party working group on punishment and reform to detail the new focus on rehabilitation and cutting crime.

Powietrzynski said that during his campaign he plans to focus on job creation, lowering taxes, Metropolitan Transportation Authority reform and crime reduction — all while trying to get out his name in an area that is heavily Democratic.

«Today's reforms allow our hardworking police officers to concentrate their efforts on the narrow group of individuals driving violent crime in New York City.

His utterances in a pamphlet for the Howard League for Penal Reform were true to form: while he was chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel for three years under the Labour government criticisms of going soft on crime were rife.

And it's been a very bipartisan issue, both in terms of becoming harsher on crime, but also as we're now seeing a reform movement,» Shannon said.

Based on the results of the study, Dr. Ater predicts that the California reform may result in an increase in the crime rate.

The reform has the potential to produce large impacts on crime by eliminating criminal records for petty marijuana offenses.