{"id":4103,"date":"2021-06-25T13:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2021-06-25T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:57:12","slug":"californias-crime-rates-reflect-dangerous-state-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Crime Rates Reflect Dangerous State Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Grimes of the California Globe has this story discussing what is making California\u2019s cities more dangerous with recent data on crime rates.\u00a0 Grimes mentions a few of the propositions that have impacted crime over the last decade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Proposition 47 largely decriminalized theft and drug crimes by reducing those crimes and a number of other \u201cnon-violent\u201d felonies to misdemeanors; Prop. 57 allows early release for \u201cnon-violent offenders,\u201d including rape by intoxication of an unconscious person, human trafficking involving a sex act with minors, arson causing great bodily harm, drive-by shooting, assault with a deadly weapon, and hostage taking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, there is one bill that was not highlighted.\u00a0 AB 109 signed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2011 which allowed for the release approximately 30,000 felons from state prison with most going on probation rather than parole. This bill removed the option of prison sentences for crimes such as auto theft, drug felonies and domestic violence and replaced it with county jail time or rehabilitation services.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Grimes included this list of the most dangerous cities in California for 2021 in the article:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Emeryville \u2013 the most property crimes in the state.<\/p>\n<p>2. Oakland\u2013 an overall\u00a0crime rate 150% higher than the national average, a murder happening every five days on average.<\/p>\n<p>3. Commerce \u2013 Over the course of a year, any given resident has a 1 in 12 chance of being the victim of a property crime, the second highest rate in California.<\/p>\n<p>4. Red Bluff experienced a shocking rate of violent crime in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>5. Signal Hill \u2013 surrounded entirely by\u00a0Long Beach, Roadsnacks.net says Signal Hill comes in as the fifth most dangerous place to call home in California.<\/p>\n<p>6. San Bernardino \u2013 With 46 murders in 2019, San Bernardino had the third highest murder rate in the state for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>7. West Hollywood \u2013 West Hollywood\u2019s property crime rate is the ninth highest in the state, and rape cases are the 39th highest.<\/p>\n<p>8. Stockton had the third highest violent crime rate in California, with 34 murders, 181 rapes, and 3,007 aggravated assaults.<\/p>\n<p>9. Marysville Marysville actually had about twice as many car thefts per capita as Stockton.<\/p>\n<p>10. Barstow \u2013 Burglary is especially prevalent in Barstow and ranks as the fourth highest rate in California. Barstow\u2019s violent crime rate as a whole is also in the top ten statewide.<\/p>\n<p>The information provided by Grimes is not widely discussed in the media, but is essential for public understanding of the problem.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 California\u2019s crime rates are rising due to so-called criminal justice reforms marketed by anti-sentencing groups claiming that they would save tax dollars and improve public safety.\u00a0 Both claims were false.\u00a0 \u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Grimes of the California Globe has this story discussing what is making California\u2019s cities more dangerous with recent data on crime rates.\u00a0 Grimes mentions a few of the propositions that have impacted crime over the last decade.\u00a0 Proposition 47 largely decriminalized theft and drug crimes by reducing those crimes and a number of other \u201cnon-violent\u201d felonies to misdemeanors; Prop. 57 allows early release for \u201cnon-violent offenders,\u201d including rape by intoxication of an unconscious person, human trafficking involving a sex act with minors, arson causing great bodily harm, drive-by shooting, assault with a deadly weapon, and hostage taking.\u00a0 However, there is one bill that was not highlighted.\u00a0 AB 109 signed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2011 which allowed for the release approximately 30,000 felons from state prison with most going on probation rather than parole. This bill removed the option of prison sentences for crimes such as auto theft, drug felonies and domestic violence and replaced it with county jail time or rehabilitation services.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41,44,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics","category-probation-and-parole","category-sentencing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>California\u2019s Crime Rates Reflect Dangerous State Policies - Crime &amp; 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=4103\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California\u2019s Crime Rates Reflect Dangerous State Policies - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Katy Grimes of the California Globe has this story discussing what is making California\u2019s cities more dangerous with recent data on crime rates.\u00a0 Grimes mentions a few of the propositions that have impacted crime over the last decade.\u00a0 Proposition 47 largely decriminalized theft and drug crimes by reducing those crimes and a number of other \u201cnon-violent\u201d felonies to misdemeanors; Prop. 57 allows early release for \u201cnon-violent offenders,\u201d including rape by intoxication of an unconscious person, human trafficking involving a sex act with minors, arson causing great bodily harm, drive-by shooting, assault with a deadly weapon, and hostage taking.\u00a0 However, there is one bill that was not highlighted.\u00a0 AB 109 signed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2011 which allowed for the release approximately 30,000 felons from state prison with most going on probation rather than parole. 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