Vox Sentences: Hillary Clinton's surprisingly forceful speech on race, crime, and the police

1. "For every tragedy caught on tape, there surely have been many more that remained invisible."

Hillary Clinton speaks during the David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University April 29, 2015 in New York City. (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)

• Hillary Clinton delivered a major speech on criminal justice reform at Columbia University today. Read it here.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• Clinton called for universal body cameras, non-prison punishments for non-violent drug crimes, reforms to significantly reduce the prison population, and more support for mental health care.

  [NYT / Amy Chozick and Michael Barbaro]

• Awkwardly, many of these problems — particularly mass incarceration — were exacerbated by Bill Clinton's policies.

  [Washington Post / Philip Bump]

• Her emphasis on mental health care highlighted a real problem: the shutting down of institutions for the mentally ill in the 1960s and 1970s corresponded with a huge increase in the mentally ill population in prisons.

  [Vox / Sarah Kliff]

• Jonathan Allen: Clinton's speech signalled that "the Democratic Party's core policy agenda in a post-Obama — and post-Obamacare — era is resolving the ills of poverty, inequality, substance abuse, and the broken criminal justice and mental health systems."

  [Vox / Jonathan Allen]

• Elias Isquith: the speech's proposals are surprisingly strong, and suggest that Clinton is interested in tackling the nexus of criminal justice and economic deprivation.

  [Salon / Elias Isquith]

2. Baltimore update

Students from Baltimore colleges and high schools march in protest chanting "Justice for Freddie Gray" on their way to City Hall April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

• The situation in Baltimore was notably calmer Tuesday night than Monday, with only 10 arrests by midnight; police officials credited the just-imposed 10pm curfew.

  [ABC News]

• Vox's Jenee Desmond-Harris was in West Baltimore, and spoke to residents who expressed both opposition to and sympathy with rioters: "Do I condone what they did? Hell no. Am I okay with it? Yes, I am."

  [Vox / Jenee Desmond-Harris]

• With most media coverage focused on the riots, the peaceful side of the protests gets less attention; here are 9 photos documenting it.

  [Vox / Libby Nelson]

• Baltimore's enormous racial disparities in income, educational attainment, poverty, and life expectancy, in six charts.

  [Vox / Libby Nelson]

• Baltimore has among the highest arrest rates for police officers of any city.

  [FireThirtyEight / Carl Bialik]

• One thing to keep in mind amidst coverage of Baltimore's gangs: it's best not to think of them as highly organized criminal syndicates, but as loose groups of friends prone to shootouts over petty disputes.

  [Slate / Leon Neyfakh]

3. Moonbeam's carbon dream

California Gov. Jerry Brown. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

• Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) is ramping up his state's greenhouse gas emissions regulations.

  [NYT / Adam Nagourney]

• Brown's executive order aims to get emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, matching a European Union target.

  [Washington Post / Reid Wilson]

• It's the most ambitious climate goal a North American government has ever set.

  [Grist / Suzanne Jacobs]

• You can read the full executive order here.

  [Jerry Brown]

• The California Global Warming Solution Act of 2006 (aka AB 32) set a goal of getting emission back down to 1990 levels by 2020, and has been implementing that through measures like fuel standards and a cap and trade program.

  [Air Resources Board]

• Brown's executive order requires the same agencies implementing AB 32 to develop similar plans for reaching the 2030 target.

  [WSJ / Alejandro Lazo]

• Lawmakers are already at work on legislation to codify the 2030 target, as well as a goal of an 80 percent cut from 1990 levels by 2050.

  [LA Times / Chris Megerian and Michael Finnegan]

4. Misc.

• The #teens used to sext using Polaroids.

  [Slate / Emily Yoffe]

• The NSA banned Furbies because it worried they'd eavesdrop on sensitive conversations.

  [Now I Know / Dan Lewis]

• Dorms, but for grown-ups.

  [Washington Post / Shilpi Malinowski]

• Is Twitter doomed financially?

  [Slate / David Auerbach]

• Israel evacuated babies born to Nepalese surrogates in the wake of Nepal's earthquake — but left their birth mothers.

  [Time / Debra Kamin]

5. Verbatim

• "I am literally a badass bitch because the last two times I got a massage, I gave myself a happy ending."

  [Ilana Glazer to NY Mag / Jada Yuan]

• "Clement wants the court to hold that guards must punish detainees 'sadistically or maliciously' in order to violate their constitutional rights, and that jolting a prisoner with electricity while he is handcuffed and face-down in a cell is neither."

  [Slate / Mark Joseph Stern]

• "I got thank-you letters from them saying that OK Computer made them believe that sex was possible again in England."

  [Clickhole]

• "Attention, Hollywood: Sometimes, 'no, I don’t want your first-edition books' truly does mean 'no.'"

  [NY Mag / Kyle Buchanan]

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