CA Crime Skyrockets in Wake of Brown's Prison Release Plan

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In 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law California Assembly Bill 109, a piece of legislation designed to relieve overcrowded prisons in accordance with a Supreme Court decision. AB 109 enshrined realignment into law a plan to place supposedly (http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/about_cdcr /docs/realignment-fact-sheet.pdf) non-violent, non-serious, and non-sex offenders in county jails rather than state prisons. In other words, local governments were handed the problem of prisoners the state didnt want to hold. On January 8, 2013, Brown said, weve gone from serious constitutional problems to one of the finest prison systems in the United States.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation calls the realignment plan (http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/) historic legislation that has helped enable California to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons. But in reality, realignment has created a revolving door for criminals: they cycle in, they leave, and they harm innocent citizens across the state. David Mulder, 43, was shot and killed (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/09/local /la-me-fontana-slaying-20130410) by police on Sunday night after stabbing a woman to death in a car near the San Bernardino Freeway. He had been released from prison early under realignment in September. Last week, a felon with convictions for grand theft auto, drug possession, receiving stolen property, and robbery was arrested for an alleged rape in Fontana. The former inmate, Juan Francisco Aguilera, 30, had been turned over to county supervision.

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CA Crime Skyrockets in Wake of Brown's Prison Release Plan

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/11/Brown-realignment

In February, 34-year-old Raoul Leyva was convicted (http://www.recordnet.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130406/A_NEWS/304060316/-1/A_NEWS02) of attempted voluntary manslaughter after beating his girlfriend, 21-year-old Brandy Marie Arreola, nearly to death. She still sits in a wheelchair, and has brain damage. She spent three months in a coma. Leyva was released early under realignment. He had already spent time in the system for domestic violence and parole violation. These are not isolated incidents. They are evidence of a broad trend. According to statistics provided to Breitbart News by the office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, 11,473 criminals have been sent to Los Angeles County jails rather than state penitentiaries since realignment kicked in. Over 43,000 inmates are doing their time in local jails rather than state pen. By 2014, that number will skyrocket to 54,000. Now heres the kicker: under the Brown realignment plan, Los Angeles county misdemeanor offenders will serve approximately 10-15% of their sentences. Then they will be released. That number will drop as jails become more crowded. More criminals, more crime. According to statistics (http://www.cjlf.org/releases /13-09.htm) from the Los Angeles County Sheriff and Probation Departments, burglaries have increased dramatically, from 175% in Hawaiian Gardens to 45% in South Los Angeles to 50% in Compton; auto theft is up 365% in Artesia, 100% in Marina Del Rey, and 92% in Bellflower. The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation reports that in the six-month period after realignment, Californias crime rates rose across the board, including a 7.6% jump in homicide. The recent Northridge boarding house murderer, who killed four people execution style, was out thanks to realignment (http://abclocal.go.com /kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8917147). Tobias Dustin Summers, wanted for kidnapping a 10-year-old Southern California girl, was out due to realignment (http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2013/04/05/31204/northridge-kidnappingrecent-crimes-raise-question/). For his part, Jerry Brown maintains that we dont need more prisons. I don't think that's smart, and I don't think the law requires it, and moreover, management of a prison is quintessentially an executive function, he said in January. The proof is in our hands, and it is bloody. Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller Bullies: How the Lefts Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America (http://www.amazon.com/Bullies-Culture-Intimidation-Silences-Americans /dp/1476709998/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0) (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).

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Robin Monroe

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I can't even begin to express how angry this makes me. The stupid law that he passed only takes into account why the person is in prison currently and does not take into account their criminal past. The ONE JOB that is clear in our constitution that the government is responsible for is law enforcement - keeping the streets safe for women and children and for conducting business, and Protecting our borders from invaders. They FAIL miserably at these things and it is time to stop letting them do anything until they get this right. If it means that there are internment camps all over the nation to house people that cannot behave in polite society - so be it.
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Darby42164

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Yup you don't have to tell me about the crime in california. In the past two years they have tried to rob my house three times. The third was the charm and they took my belongings. And I live in the safe area.
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GoSellCrazySomeplaceElse

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Let criminals out on the street and try to confiscate our guns. FN idiots. These California morons didn't get enough of the clown, Jerry Brown, the first time aroun'. So, give us a large, second helping of Brown dung...I hear it goes well with liberal whine.
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Rosewould

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Take away Californians drugs and give them pitchforks. Problem solved.
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fcalsone

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Don't forget how many criminals big sis let out and how many everyday the border patrol lets go. Hard core drug cartel criminals running free all over the place. Look at the surnames on the crime stories. Where I live 85% of crime reported in the newspaper is Hispanic and yet the border of a narco state running drugs remains open and the people of California and Arizona are taking big hits because of it. I believe now the politicians are the real criminals.
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high cap mags.

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C. Edmund Wright
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Who could have POSSIBLY seen this coming? /s

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dwsmokin

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California-similar to Chicago-is nothing more than a microcosm of what Washington wants to implement. We see-on a daily basis-what the Liberal agenda has wrought-yet no one thinks it will happen in their town, or community, or state. It's as though they a predisposed to ignore the obvious, and their critical thinking skills shut down completely when any actual facts run counter to their philosophy. Shame really, that thousands of years of evolution have led to this.
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