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2024-03-23 Home Front: Politix

California Democrats Try to Preserve Disastrous Proposition 47

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-23 07:18|| || Front Page|| [183 views ] Top

#1 It's professional courtesy. Thieves protecting other thieves. They got a whiff of that in New Mexico and changed the law to treat 'accumulative' total rather than a one time event.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-23 11:08|| 2024-03-23 11:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Californians did vote for this. So no sympathy. You get what you want. And apparently you Californians want this. So enjoy!

Posted by Tom 2024-03-23 11:41|| 2024-03-23 11:41|| Front Page Top

#3 "Justice reform" is the idea that people are criminals because they are treated like criminals.

No. They are criminals because they act like criminals. They made that choice, not all the rest of us.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-23 11:48|| 2024-03-23 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 How did the Correction Officer’s Union let that one get passed?

Posted by Super Hose 2024-03-23 12:25|| 2024-03-23 12:25|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC, one of the arguments in favor of Prop. 47 was that California prisons are overcrowded and it's too expensive to build more. But maybe we should just think of the new prisons as "affordable housing".

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-03-23 13:30|| 2024-03-23 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 At one time at the beginning of this century, I was a staff participant in drafting criminal justice policy for the State of California. Central to the political context of the discussions was the factor of "disproportionate minority representation" in various statistics dealing with apprehensions, convictions incarceration and investigations.
In simplistic terms, it was argued that either minorities committed a disproportionate level of crime, or that the system was inherently biased.
The facts were incontrovertible, but one of the two answers was unacceptable. From this unwillingness to face reality everything has flowed.

Obviously, there are many more factors about poverty, enforcement concentration, family structure, education, that are involved. But the cowardice in refusing to assign significant blame to the predilection of a large percentage of male, minority youth to criminal behavior rests with the political left across the spectrum of governance in America!

The subsequent pandering and outright manipulation for political gain by Obama and Biden has accelerated, not moderated, this cancerous behavior!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-23 13:58|| 2024-03-23 13:58|| Front Page Top

#7 ...so killers walk.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-23 17:21|| 2024-03-23 17:21|| Front Page Top

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