Epoch Times - Here's The Origin of California's Rising Crime | Douglas Eckenrod  #californiainsider #crime
Aired: 2023-10-21
Duration: 00:55

[00:00:00]  This number of 98% of crime is going to turn into 110% and 130% and 150% unless exigent action is taken today.
[00:00:08]  One of the things that can't get overlooked is you've got multiple policies that are beginning to impinge on one another.
[00:00:13]  So you've got Prop 57 in the early releases, tens of thousands of people getting credits earlier than they should have.
[00:00:18]  Think about if you're a victim.
[00:00:19]  If the DA told you, hey, you're not going to see this person in your community, then you're at Walmart this afternoon and you see him.
[00:00:24]  The victims of crime are being traumatized from this thing.
[00:00:26]  And then Prop 47 takes a bunch of felonies and turns them into misdemeanors.
[00:00:30]  And so the same crimes that would have been stopped by the criminal justice system now are treated with a little slap on the wrist and go back outside.
[00:00:36]  And then you get what you're seeing with these strong-armed robberies in the middle of the day, or San Francisco, or major cities, or groups of thugs are breaking windows at gunpoint, stealing stuff en masse.
[00:00:46]  Certainly we've got evidence that community safety outcomes have gotten much, much worse.
[00:00:49]  So the very things that we said we were attempting to achieve, we've got worse outcomes in both.
[00:00:53]  So folks have got to be held accountable.