During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her use of the word "superpredators" back in 1996. Some on the left laid into her, accusing Clinton of racism.

Meanwhile, her opponent, Donald Trump, trying to sucker leftist Bernie Sanders voters into not voting for her, piped in, saying yes, she was smearing African Americans. This was the same Trump who in 1989 had called for the execution of the "Central Park Five," five Black and Latino men who as teenagers were convicted of brutally raping a jogger but were later found to have been innocent.

Superpredators were taken at the time to mean young street thugs who repeatedly committed violent crimes with no conscience or empathy and were undeterred by traditional punishment. New York happens to be one of the safest cities in the country, but instances of brutal crimes, especially on the subway, get highlighted by national media. And usually, the individual pushing some bystander in front of a........

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