Big Government needs mega help to meet respectable performance metrics…..the sad part…..how many cloud/filter all this data out there.

Thanks for filling in the blanks. I already knew about the downgrades on crimes, but have not seen the FBI data so I was curious how they arrived at their conclusion. Obviously, they intended to deceive the public.

I hope you will write an Op-Ed piece or at least a Letter to the Editor about this. Your explanation is easy to follow and wipes out the folks who published this fakery.

I think it is interesting that the actual increase in crime and difficulty law enforcement has protecting us that is happening now was predicted by opponents of these stupid laws before they were adopted. That is bad enough. But, it’s the predictions of what will happen next that should be on our radar now.

We need to abolish Props 47, 57, AB-109 and any other stupid law that puts criminals ahead of citizens.

Contact your legislators and tell them. Come election time, contact all the state and local legislators on your ballot and ask them if they support abolition of these laws. If they say no, tell them you can’t support them. If they say yes, ask them to make a public statement and add it to their campaign platform. If they do, then work hard to get them elected. Tell your friends to do the same.

Speak up, speak out, spread the word!

Do this with taxes and spending issues, too.

Excellent points. Why the drop in crime? Well its pretty simple. Just re-classify dozens of so-called ‘petty’ crimes like assault, burglary, etc from felonies to misdemeanors and watch the statistics decline.
Nobody out here in the real world believes this nonsense about a drop in crime. It was all part of Moonbat and his D-Rat toadies big plan to hide the spike in crime so as not to endanger their re-election plans.
I suppose next we can expect them to legalize murder so that they can then claim the homicide rate in Cali has dropped to zero.

Standing Fast –

The periods compared in the article (first half 2010 and first half 2016) are cherry picked to create the “factual” headline of “Crime rates stable after state’s passage of sentencing reforms”.

If you click their own politifact link you can see: ” Politifact double-checked his claim and found a one-year violent crime increase (from 2014 to 2015) of 8.4 percent.” So comparing more recent years shows a noticeable increase (because crime had been falling for decades).

There is also an effect on arrest numbers(this is what the FBI stats are) because many property crime and some violent crimes were downgraded in severity by Prop 47. Also via AB109, many repeat offenders won’t be given new charges or parole/probation violations, etc. I think this would help to dampen any real increase.

Comrade Queeg:

Fake how?

This article is Fake News……..

Thank you, Ricky!

In California, the homeless issue is all mixed up in this prison-reform business, too.