Mohammad Khalid
Midwood's Diversity

Recently, Bill Clinton was interrupted at a campaign where he was interupted about the Crime Bill of 1994.

1994 Crime Bill
The Crime Bill of 1984 dealt with crime and law enforcement in 1994. It was signed by former President Bill Clinton while he was in office. This law put millions of African Americans in jail.

According to ELIZABETH HINTON, JULILLY KOHLER-HAUSMANN and VESLA M. WEAVER, wrote an editorial called "Did Blacks Really endorse the 1994 Crime Bill?"  They wrote  "Calls for tough sentencing and police protection were paired with calls for full employment, quality education and drug treatment, and criticism of police brutality." They African Americans during this time were not only asking for tough police law enforcement but they also wanted other things such as quality education and police protection. This article explains that the Crime Bill include 75% cost went to new prisons, 100,000 new police officers and narrowed inmates to higher education.

 "Less than a quarter of the funding went to prevention programs. "