Midnight basketball was a 1990s initiative to curb inner-city crime in the United States by keeping urban youth off the streets and engaging them with alternatives to drugs and crime.
In 1994, Bill Clinton pushed for an anti-crime bill that would lead to 100,000 more police officers as well as a number of programs intended to "deter crime where it starts" by providing "community activities like midnight basketball".
The plan was widely lampooned by conservatives such as House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, who cited midnight basketball as an ineffective and wasteful use of federal funds.Some, such as Rush Limbaugh, even called the proposal racist, given the largely African American populations targeted by the program. However, midnight basketball was not a proposal unique to the Democrats— it was one of George H. W. Bush's "Thousand Points of Light".
2007-03-20 18:37:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
LOL, yea our cities are all safe now!
/sarcasm off
2007-03-20 18:48:51 · answer #1 · answered by Frank 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
why is it that Republicans love to talk about this program...
I've seen both studies that say crime rates did go down... and that they went up... depends on which studies you look at apparently... when odds are, what ever the rates are, it all had little to do with this program, and much more to do with the economic situations and social trends in the nieghborhoods...
overall... it's about as meaningless as a political point gets, a relatively small program, by government standards, that may or may have not failed... that was an attempt to do something good?
and, nobody but about 5 percent of Republicans care...
2007-03-20 18:48:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have never heard of this proposal. Oh, 1994, I was barely out of high school. Sounds like it would have been a good thing, but from some of the answers, it got mixed results. It would be interesting to get some straight facts!
2007-03-20 18:57:04 · answer #3 · answered by mom-of-4 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
actually it was, except for an occassional after game fight, which happens, the more community activites that envlove youh the less crime
2007-03-20 21:26:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What do you think? Of course not.
This is a dems way of taking care of everything, do nothing and talk about how good you are doing
2007-03-20 18:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by Kye H 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sports had prevented many teenagers from crimes. Instead of contemplating of felonies, they are busy about playing basketball.
2007-03-20 18:41:11 · answer #6 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
700 Basket Balls were stolen. Want one?
2007-03-20 21:58:44 · answer #7 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not, in fact drug dealing went up in these areas.
2007-03-20 18:43:07 · answer #8 · answered by MRJERK715 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋