Epoch Times - California Sheriff Explains Why People Don't Feel Safe Anymore #californiainsider
Aired: 2023-11-18
Duration: 00:49

[00:00:00]  We see exactly what you see as a citizen.
[00:00:02]  You don't feel safe.
[00:00:03]  The last thing I want anybody, man, woman, or child, is to be looking over their shoulder when they go out and enjoy their lives.
[00:00:09]  They shouldn't have to worry about that, but not in this state.
[00:00:11]  Things have changed.
[00:00:12]  It's out of control across the board, and I think in California, it's pretty hard to get into jail.
[00:00:16]  The county jail system was designed just to hold people for a year or while they're going through the court process.
[00:00:22]  Ever since prison realignment in our local jails, they pushed down what used to be a state's responsibility with a lot of serious felons into our jails.
[00:00:29]  Now we're holding people, sometimes 10 years, 15 years, drug abusers, folks that are doing shoplifting and things on a regular basis.
[00:00:35]  There's no capacity.
[00:00:36]  If I'm going through and I'm classifying people that need to stay in jail, I'm going to keep the violent ones.
[00:00:41]  And because of what we've done with petty theft, making it a non-felony, those are the people that we're going to end up releasing because I've got to keep the ones that we're afraid of in custody as a society.