Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin acknowledges more inmates are released early in the wake of AB-109, but he points to a new report from the center on juvenile and criminal justice. It says FBI statistics show realigning offenders is not connected with increases in crime.
Public policy groups are seizing on new statistics from the FBI to claim California’s prison realignment plan is causing “significant increases” in crime, even as others say the numbers show no connection at all.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Analyzing newly released FBI data — the first full crime figures published since Realignment — CJCJ found no correlation between Realignment and crime trends.
Newsroom Jan 23, 2013
Police Commission Hearing, Jan. 23, 2013
CJCJ’s testimony to the San Francisco Police Commission regarding the city’s 40-year history of increasingly racially disparate arrest practices.
Newsroom Jan 19, 2013
In Our View: Vigilance on CampusClark County Safe Schools Task Force has districts working together
In Our View: Vigilance on CampusClark County Safe Schools Task Force has districts working together Columbian, January, 18, 2013