Jasmine Crockett: Committing Crimes Doesn’t Make You a Criminal

Crockett: “Understanding what ends up having people become criminally impacted really informs so much of what I do legislatively, right? So, when people are like, oh, you know, crime is terrible — and yes, it is, right? Like, because when somebody goes out and commits a crime, they don’t typically, you know, say, well, I’m a D, or I’m a R, or I’m a I. It’s not, like — literally, like, it’s about, well, how do you fix it? How do you make community safer? And I do think that I’m in a unique situation because I was having the conversations with people that were going out and committing crimes. And so, I understood what was kind of pushing them there. And so, I do want people to know that, just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal. That is completely different. Being a criminal is more so about your mindset. Committing a crime can come for a lot of different reasons.”