editorial<\/a> in City Watch, Caroline Aguirre, a retired 24-year California police officer,\u00a0 outlines the numerous criminal justice reform policies the state has enacted, beginning with the 2010 corrections reform called “non-revokable parole.”\u00a0 That policy granted early release with no parole supervision to property and drug offenders deemed “non-violent” by the state.\u00a0 Bass supported it.\u00a0 In 2011, the legislature passed AB109, a major restructuring of the criminal justice system which also encouraged early release of offenders with sharply reduced supervision.\u00a0 Bass supported it.\u00a0 Then there was Proposition 47, championed by then San Francisco DA George Gascon and bankrolled by progressive New York billionaire George Soros and the ACLU.\u00a0 Bass supported\u00a0 this so-called “safe neighborhoods and schools Act,” and with the big bucks from Soros, misleading television adds fooled the public into passing it.\u00a0 The initiative decriminalized most thefts and drug transactions, turning major cities into crime-infested open air drug malls.\u00a0 Then in 2016 came Proposition 57…Jerry Brown’s “Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act.”\u00a0 With millions of dollars from Soros, the voters were fooled again.\u00a0 This time passing a law that allowed hard-core habitual felons with violent prior convictions, including murder and rape, to gain early release after serving two-thirds to one-half of their sentences.\u00a0 Bass supported it.<\/p>\nAguirre asks “how is Karen Bass going to address the homeless issues in our city?…..Bass,\u00a0 during her years as an elected official and even now as a U.S. Representative has failed to address this issue….Also, how is Bass going to address the massive increases in our city’s crime rates?\u00a0 Remember, she supported all of these Criminal Justice Reform Acts which have contributed to an increase in crime.”<\/p>\n
Bass’s opponent on November 8th is billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso.\u00a0 Caruso changed his political affiliation from independent to democrat when he decided to run for Mayor.\u00a0 Caruso’s only significant involvement in politics was his 2001 election as President of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners.\u00a0 In that role, he led the effort to recruit former New York City police commissioner William Bratton to Chief of the LA Police Department.\u00a0 Chief Bratton implemented polices that contributed to a decade-long drop in crime. \u00a0 As a candidate for Mayor, Caruso is pledging to restore some of those policies, including adding 1,500 officers to the police force, restoring the Crash unit that targets high crime areas, cracking down on gun traffickers, and pushing for reform or repeal of Proposition 47.\u00a0 Caruso pledges to take 30,000 homeless off the streets in the first year, clearing out parks, beaches and sidewalks.\u00a0 He cites his experience as a developer to build and repurpose properties to deliver shelter space at half the current $700,000 per bed housing cost.\u00a0 He has also pledged to expand mental health and drug addiction services to get the 67% of LA homeless who are mentally ill or addicted to drugs into care.<\/p>\n
These are ambitious goals, but at least Caruso is squarely facing the city’s major problems.<\/p>\n
Bass’s policies on these issues are patterned, in part, after Caruso’s.\u00a0 She pledges to house 15,000 homeless in the first year, end street camping and provide increase services, and housing, and bring the private sector on board.\u00a0 She pledges to increase mental health and addiction treatment.\u00a0 Her approach to crime includes a more racially diverse LAPD and the insistence that “We’ve tried arresting our way out of the problem before – it doesn’t work.”\u00a0 Her solution, invest more in social services, housing and job skills training.\u00a0 Bass believes that cash bail criminalizes poverty, so her answer is continue zero bail and encourage public officials to do a better job.\u00a0 Her answer to theft related crimes, such as smash and grab robberies, is to get state funding for recovery programs to reimburse stores that are regularly cleaned out by thieves.\u00a0\u00a0 These are the responses of a lifelong liberal politician.\u00a0 More government programs, more spending, less actual enforcement of the law, and no effort to fix the bad policies (she supported) that are encouraging crime.<\/p>\n
California arrested its way out of high crime in the 1990s and rates remained low until 2010, as Bass was six years into her political career.\u00a0 Recent studies indicate that zero bail encourages more crime.\u00a0 Paying stores that get robbed, without dealing with the thieves is just stupid.<\/p>\n
Angelinos who believe that they will be better protected by a Karen Bass should vote for her.<\/p>\n
Those who want things to change in Los Angeles might want to consider the private sector guy who has been earning his own paycheck and employing thousands of others, now stepping away from a pretty nice private life to try and save the city he loves.<\/p>\n
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