How Obama and Holder Changed Broward County Law Enforcement for Racial Reasons

RUSH: What would happen if you learned that background checks may not work because the data in the background check system isn’t even there because of policies from the Obama and Holder Department of Justice to equalize racial populations in prison has resulted in many crimes and criminals not being arrested or reported because of the belief that there is a bias in the criminal justice system against minorities?

What if you were to learn that local police departments, sheriff’s offices, and school districts have been awarded grant money from the Obama administration for doing just that: looking the other way when certain crimes have taken place? On purpose, so as to change the racial proportion of the prison population, among many other things?

Well, the reason why I ask the question is because it may be happening. I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers from the archives here, the December 4th, 2013, issue of the American Prospect magazine. Headline: “Reversing Broward County’s School-to-Prison Pipeline.”

If you knew something like that was in place, does anything that happened in the aftermath or at the moment in this school change the way you’re looking at it?

Well, the reason why I ask the question is because it may be happening. I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers from the archives here, the December 4th, 2013, issue of the American Prospect magazine. Headline: “Reversing Broward County’s School-to-Prison Pipeline.”

The article is about efforts undertaken to avoid arresting students. And the article speaks to the concern that Broward County might have turned a blind eye to the behavior of Nikolas Cruz because they wanted to lower the number of student suspensions, which is a big part of Obama-Holder prison reform. So this is a five-year-old story. Well, four and a half years old. It’s December of 2013.

CALLER: Doing well, Rush. Rush, as usual, you are spot on. I retired from 26 years in the military in 2008 and continued my service as a teacher. I went to the Detroit city school district, and I only stayed six years. What drove me out of education was — and it was in 2013 — was this PROMISE Program that you’re talking about. I had been assaulted — nothing was done — in the hallways of the class.

But in 2013, our class fundraiser received two counterfeit 10-dollar bills. The student that noticed it, that they had identical serial numbers, remembered who gave them to us. And it was the school’s basketball star. We went to the financial secretary and found out that over a thousand dollars had been passed through the school’s cafeteria already. We immediately went straight down the hall to the dean of discipline to report it and were told that we should be ashamed of ourselves, that this was this young man’s way out of the city, and that it would destroy his athletic future.

RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This sounds sadly believable. This really happened, right?

CALLER: Absolutely. I assure you.RUSH: The PROMISE Program. There you have it, folks. Plant a little seed here in the first half hour of the program, and look at what we are learning. Now, keep in mind what this is. This is a grant program. It is the Obama DOJ. It means Obama and Eric Holder, and they are promising local school districts grant money to look the other way when certain people commit crimes, misdemeanors, felonies, just look the other way, the express purpose supposedly to change the school-to-prison pipeline.

They wanted to lower the percentage of minority prisoners because they felt the percentage of minorities in prison was exorbitantly high due to racism. In other words, Obama and Holder contended that there were a lot of innocent people in jail who hadn’t committed any crimes simply because they were minorities and that racist law enforcement was targeting them. So this program set out to change the percentage of the pipeline and offered grant money to look the other way, essentially, to not report certain crimes.

In this case, in Detroit, we’re hearing now that a thousand dollars of counterfeit money was passed through the schools, and the dean of discipline said we gotta look the other way. This is a star basketball player, it’s his only way out, his only ticket out, we can’t do anything here. It’s exactly the program. And the reason, folks, that the dean of discipline did that, was money! These school districts don’t have any money. Nobody has any money. We’re $20 trillion in debt. Nobody has any money. Except the people that run the government printing press. All these budgets are overrun. And so here comes Uncle Sam offering all kinds of money if you do this, slam dunk.

Runcie, I wanted to remind you, the PROMISE Program was started in Chicago. That’s where it was first implemented. And the current superintendent in Broward, Mr. Runcie, was recruited from Chicago to bring the PROMISE Program to Broward County. He was in the Chicago public school system specifically to fix the schoolhouse to jailhouse problem in Broward, and he was hailed as a hero as suspensions magically dropped by 40% and arrests dropped by 66% in just two years in Broward County. They just stopped arresting and they stopped suspending.

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