Opinion: Voters' frustration with Proposition 47 and crime signal sensible changes are needed [Opinion]
is a former San Diego chief of police. She retired in 2018 after 35 years with the San Diego Police Department.by UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found 78 percent of Californians feel crime has gotten worse across the state over the past year.
What’s most encouraging about these results is that voters’ concerns could soon translate into action by reversing some of the state’s enacted laws that loosened penalties. Californians are zeroing in on Proposition 47 — a ballot measure passed in 2014 that significantly reduced penalties for drug crimes and theft. Last month’s UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll found nearly two-thirds of voters are ready to make changes to it.
The fact that such a majority of the public is fed up in a state as progressive as California says something about how bad things have gotten. Unfortunately, our current situation was predictable.Proposition 47 from the beginning because it was based on a faulty premise. The measure was rooted in the same approach to policing that has driven many of California’s criminal justice changes in recent years.
One significant factor has been the recent elections of progressive prosecutors who have enacted blanket policies of not charging many crimes, like Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon. Gascon was some of his policies last month following public backlash when an individual who was inappropriately charged as a juvenile was caught bragging about the lenient punishment received for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.
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