2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week focused on ‘rights, access, equity and inclusion’? What about equal justice under the law?

We received a link to the DOJ’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and their guidelines and events for the 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week being held from April 24-30, 2022. Here’s some data on the crime of murder by race and gender.

You would think that this week the DOJ and OVC would be highlighting victims of murder, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, grooming by organizations like Disney, Apple and TicTok. Instead they are focused on “rights, access…and ensuring equity and inclusion for all”?

According to USA Facts:

Violent crime was up 3.3% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to preliminary data from the FBI’s quarterly Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system. This includes a 25% increase in the homicide rate. The recent uptick in violent crime is a change from more than 30 years of decreases in property and violent crime. Data shows crime spiked across all categories in the early 1990s and have steadily decreased since with few exceptions. Meanwhile, property crime decreased by 7.9% in 2020.

Interestingly events are being held at the first three victim assistance organizations, all in Democrat controlled cities:

• Bay Area Women Against Rape in Oakland, CA;
• the DC Rape Crisis Center in Washington, DC;
• and Aid for Victims of Crime (now the Crime Victim Center) in St. Louis, MO

Biden’s appointee to the Office of Victims of Crime Kristina Rose part of a group called Healing Justice. According to the Healing Justice website:

In our healing work, we create safe spaces and individualized support that enable us to tackle the complex grief and trauma caused by injustice, including issues of gender violence, racial inequity, and social marginalization.

Where is help for those who are victims of crimes?

It appears from Kristina Rose’s letter on 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week the focus is not on crimes against humanity but rather “rights, access…and ensuring equity and inclusion for all.”

Rose’s letter states:

This year’s theme—Rights, access, equity, for all victims—underscores the importance of enforcing victims’ rights, expanding access to services, and ensuring equity and inclusion for all. By enforcing victims’ rights, victim service providers and other allied professionals promote a fair and balanced justice system that encourages respect, dignity, and meaningful participation among those most directly impacted by crime. By ensuring that equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive services and meaningful compensation are available to survivors, we can help all victims find the justice and healing they seek.

We have written about Biden’s diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) efforts which in effect marginalize certain groups while elevating other groups, particularly minorities and homosexuals. It appears that the OVC is lockstep with this agenda.

What happened to equal justice under the law? What happened to treat all victims of crimes equally? What has happened to the DOJ and OVC?

Answer: The DOJ and OVC has gone woke.

We believe that it is better to stop the crimes of murder, human trafficking, spousal abuse, grooming of underaged children, drug abuse and hate crimes.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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