San Francisco Authorities Vote to Soften Language Used to Label Criminals

San Francisco Authorities Vote to Soften Language Used to Label Criminals
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Tom Ozimek
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San Francisco, which according to a recent study (pdf) on criminality in 30 big American cities is second only to Baltimore as the most crime-ridden, has moved to scrub clean terminology related to crime.
The city’s Board of Supervisors voted last month on a resolution (pdf) that would introduce changes that would include scrubbing the crime lexicon clean of a spectrum of words deemed “pejorative.”
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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