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Last November over 68% of California voters announced that they wanted state law enforcement to crack-down on thieves, drug dealers and addicts.\u00a0 Proposition 36 passed in all 58 counties including the liberal strongholds of San Francisco, Marin and Los Angeles. The measure was opposed by the democrat party, almost every democrat in the Legislature, the Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General and every liberal\/progressive public interest and non-profit organization in the state.\u00a0 It mandated that habitual thieves and drug dealers be charged with felonies and that drug addicts arrested for a third time for drug possession be ordered into either treatment or jail.\u00a0 So how did democrat lawmakers react? Earlier this year Assemblywoman Sade Elhawary, who represents gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, introduced a bill that ABC News reports<\/a> would allow habitual felons to go into a rehab program rather than jail or prison. This bill,\u00a0 AB 1231<\/a>, the Safer Communities Through Opportunities Act<\/em>, is a direct rebuke of the California voters, including several million democrats who voted for Proposition 36.\u00a0 In July during the budget process, media exposure shamed Elhawary and her colleagues in the Legislature into approving a one-time set aside of 1\/4 of the funds needed annually to allow counties to fully enforce Proposition 36.\u00a0 Now they are considering a bill allowing judges to completely ignore it and let the criminals go.\u00a0 In order to actually restore public safety in California, at the 2026 election voters must burst the bubble that the democrat majority of the state legislature are living in by removing them from office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last November over 68% of California voters announced that they wanted state law enforcement to crack-down on thieves, drug dealers and addicts.\u00a0 Proposition 36 passed in all 58 counties including the liberal strongholds of San Francisco, Marin and Los Angeles. The measure was opposed by the democrat party, almost every democrat in the Legislature, the Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General and every liberal\/progressive public interest and non-profit organization in the state.\u00a0 It mandated that habitual thieves and drug dealers be charged with felonies and that drug addicts arrested for a third time for drug possession be ordered into either treatment or jail.\u00a0 So how did democrat lawmakers react? Earlier this year Assemblywoman Sade Elhawary, who represents gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, introduced a bill that ABC News reports would allow habitual felons to go into a rehab program rather than jail or prison. This bill,\u00a0 AB 1231, the Safer Communities Through Opportunities Act, is a direct rebuke of the California voters, including several million democrats who voted for Proposition 36.\u00a0 In July during the budget process, media exposure shamed Elhawary and her colleagues in the Legislature into approving a one-time set aside of 1\/4 of the funds needed annually to allow counties to fully enforce Proposition 36.\u00a0 Now they are considering a bill allowing judges to completely ignore it and let the criminals go.\u00a0 In order to actually restore public safety in California, at the 2026 election voters must burst the bubble that the democrat majority of the state legislature are living in by removing them from office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nCA Legislature is Clueless on Crime - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11660\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CA Legislature is Clueless on Crime - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last November over 68% of California voters announced that they wanted state law enforcement to crack-down on thieves, drug dealers and addicts.\u00a0 Proposition 36 passed in all 58 counties including the liberal strongholds of San Francisco, Marin and Los Angeles. 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