Ronald Regan

America always used to have a fair "for the people" type of court system. There were things to protect the rights of the accused, which are still in place for today but are sometimes overlooked. This was until Ronald Regan came into office and instilled on October 27, 1986 the crime bill, which is the bill that we have now been using to fight crime in America today. What this bill did was make first off make mandatory minimums for certain crimes. What this did was make lesser offences of crime punished harder, like using or selling drugs, than say a crime that might have hurt somebody. This bill has been criticized since before he signed the bill, as an enforcement policy that would not be helping the criminals. What happens is that we are just locking these people up, when we should be helping them with rehab or something else that might help their addiction. Also it would help alleviate how many people we have in our jails today by actually helping the criminal not just locking them up.