{"id":2620,"date":"2016-11-07T12:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2018-04-02T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:06:08","slug":"final-thoughts-on-californias-proposition-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/final-thoughts-on-californias-proposition-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Thoughts on California&#8217;s Proposition 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Vote-2016-1024x768.png\" alt=\"Vote 2016\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Vote-2016.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Vote-2016-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Vote-2016-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Vote-2016-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he so-called \u201cPublic Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016\u201d overturns four decades of criminal justice laws that have lowered crime rates in California. The Proposition allows tens of thousands of violent, dangerous and career criminals to be released early.<\/p>\n<p>It gives Department of Corrections bureaucrats the Constitutional Authority to reduce sentences for \u201cgood behavior\u201d, even for inmates previously convicted of murder, rape, child molestation and human trafficking,<\/p>\n<p>Prop. 57 disregards previous criminal history and sentences imposed by Judges for repeat and career criminals, treating the worst career criminals the same as first-time offenders<\/p>\n<p>It unravels decades of work to provide crime victim rights, protect communities, and hold criminals accountable for their actions. Key provisions of <a href=\"http:\/\/marsyslaw.us\/about-marsys-law\/\">Marsy\u2019s Law<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three-strikes_law\">3-Strikes and You\u2019re Out<\/a>\u201d, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Proposition_8_(1982)\">Victims\u2019 Bill of Rights<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caseact.org\/about\/\">Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lao.ca.gov\/ballot\/1997\/970898_int.html\">Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act<\/a>, are either overturned or neutered.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe the lies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/jtf\/JTF_PrisonsJTF.pdf\">prisons are not overcrowded<\/a>. We passed that threshold in January 2015, and have not looked back<\/li>\n<li>California\u2019s prisons are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/jtf\/JTF_PrisonsJTF.pdf\">not housing tens of thousands of non-violent offenders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/content\/pubs\/jtf\/JTF_PrisonsJTF.pdf\">Minor drug offenders<\/a> are not overwhelming California\u2019s prison population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=2504\">rape by intoxication, rape of an unconscious person, human trafficking involving sex acts with minors, drive by shootings, assault with a deadly weapon, taking a hostage domestic violence involving trauma, supplying a firearm to a gang member, and lewd acts upon a child<\/a>, are violent crimes, then you must vote NO on Proposition 57. Otherwise we will revert to a time when crime was rampant, victims were plentiful, and the dark heart of evil infects our communities.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be fooled by slick rhetoric. In recent months the <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/sites\/all\/files\/agweb\/pdfs\/cjsc\/publications\/candd\/cd15\/cd15.pdf?\">California Attorney General<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2015\/preliminary-semiannual-uniform-crime-report-januaryjune-2015\">F.B.I.<\/a> have published separate studies that demonstrate a ten percent rise in violent crime in the last year alone. If you haven\u2019t done so already, when you go to the poling precinct tomorrow vote NO on Proposition 57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he so-called \u201cPublic Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016\u201d overturns four decades of criminal justice laws that have lowered crime rates in California. The Proposition allows tens of thousands of violent, dangerous and career criminals to be released early. It gives Department of Corrections bureaucrats the Constitutional Authority to reduce sentences for \u201cgood behavior\u201d, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[610,171,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proposition-57","category-three-strikes-and-youre-out","category-victims-bill-of-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}