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California’s Next Crime Wave – Fuel Theft
Here are a few examples: On September 27, an Inland Empire resident drove away from her job at an area hospital when her pickup truck puttered to a stop. An investigation showed her tank had been drilled and emptied. A Valero Station in Fremont lost tens of thousands of gallons ...
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Immigration in California (By the Numbers)
According to Pew Research, immigration ranked second, after the economy, in a top ten list of potential Trump voter concerns going into the 2024 presidential election. For potential Harris voters, immigration ranked last. Upon his Nov 6th election, President-Elect Trump made immediate plans for the “mass deportation” of millions ...
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Learn why even Bay Area progressives voted to stop rising crime
Progressives Reject Progressivism
If Democratic party registration is any indication of the popularity of the progressive agenda – which Gov. Gavin Newsom calls “the California way” – then San Francisco and Alameda counties are the most progressive in California. Yet, in the last two years amidst rising crime, exploding overdose deaths, and dying ...
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The End of Violence? Not Quite.
In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California. So struck was the paper by the decline in juvenile crime, the article was titled, “Vanishing Violence.” The numbers were indeed striking. In 1995, juvenile homicides stood at 382. By 2017, the latest year ...
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All Crime is Local – Why National Crime Statistics Don’t Matter
The FBI doesn’t receive individual reports of crimes, rather, they aggregate the crime statistics reported by thousands of law enforcement agencies who, for ease of comparison, share a common reporting format. This gives us a bird’s eye view of national and state crime statistics, albeit with a lot of errors ...
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A Cruel Moment of Clarity
The police as of this writing have not identified the 17 year-old suspect who was arrested immediately after the shooting, saying only that he is from Tracy, California. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on Tuesday filed attempted murder, robbery, and other charges against the suspect. It’s an election year and the ...
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Read the latest on California's growing crime problem
Public Safety on the Edge – Law enforcement in California’s Fastest Growing County
On July 22, the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) published a research brief shedding new light on the problem of rural police staffing in California. So acute is the problem that two years ago, the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office made national news when it announced that staffing shortages ...
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Learn about the latest soft on crime proposal coming from the State Capitol
SB 94 Comes Back to Life –Plan Would Release Multiple Murderers and Rapists
Yet today, the overwhelming majority of California’s violent inmates are already or will be eligible for a parole hearing and potential release. And they are being released in record numbers. It is a common misconception that California’s prisons are full of non-violent offenders. That ended with the passage of AB ...
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The Prop 47 Budgetary Shell Game – Who you Gonna Believe? Them, or your Lying Eyes?
In 2014, Californians voted overwhelmingly to pass Proposition 47, known by its supporters title the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” Prop 47’s advocates made a strong case, promising that both crime and incarceration rates would decline. At the same time, supporters argued that “massive” savings from ending the practice of ...
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Read about rising juvenile crime rates
California’s Lost Boys – On California’s Juvenile Crime Problem
On May 18, Monterey couple Curt and Shelley Chaffee were visiting San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Shelley is an artist and was taking photographs of the park’s bison when they were robbed at gunpoint of their Nikon camera and cell phones by two male suspects. They were able to locate ...
California’s Next Crime Wave – Fuel Theft
Here are a few examples: On September 27, an Inland Empire resident drove away from her job at an area hospital when her pickup truck puttered to a stop. An investigation showed her tank had been drilled and emptied. A Valero Station in Fremont lost tens of thousands of gallons ...
Immigration in California (By the Numbers)
According to Pew Research, immigration ranked second, after the economy, in a top ten list of potential Trump voter concerns going into the 2024 presidential election. For potential Harris voters, immigration ranked last. Upon his Nov 6th election, President-Elect Trump made immediate plans for the “mass deportation” of millions ...
Learn why even Bay Area progressives voted to stop rising crime
Progressives Reject Progressivism
If Democratic party registration is any indication of the popularity of the progressive agenda – which Gov. Gavin Newsom calls “the California way” – then San Francisco and Alameda counties are the most progressive in California. Yet, in the last two years amidst rising crime, exploding overdose deaths, and dying ...
The End of Violence? Not Quite.
In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California. So struck was the paper by the decline in juvenile crime, the article was titled, “Vanishing Violence.” The numbers were indeed striking. In 1995, juvenile homicides stood at 382. By 2017, the latest year ...
All Crime is Local – Why National Crime Statistics Don’t Matter
The FBI doesn’t receive individual reports of crimes, rather, they aggregate the crime statistics reported by thousands of law enforcement agencies who, for ease of comparison, share a common reporting format. This gives us a bird’s eye view of national and state crime statistics, albeit with a lot of errors ...
A Cruel Moment of Clarity
The police as of this writing have not identified the 17 year-old suspect who was arrested immediately after the shooting, saying only that he is from Tracy, California. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on Tuesday filed attempted murder, robbery, and other charges against the suspect. It’s an election year and the ...
Read the latest on California's growing crime problem
Public Safety on the Edge – Law enforcement in California’s Fastest Growing County
On July 22, the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) published a research brief shedding new light on the problem of rural police staffing in California. So acute is the problem that two years ago, the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office made national news when it announced that staffing shortages ...
Learn about the latest soft on crime proposal coming from the State Capitol
SB 94 Comes Back to Life –Plan Would Release Multiple Murderers and Rapists
Yet today, the overwhelming majority of California’s violent inmates are already or will be eligible for a parole hearing and potential release. And they are being released in record numbers. It is a common misconception that California’s prisons are full of non-violent offenders. That ended with the passage of AB ...
The Prop 47 Budgetary Shell Game – Who you Gonna Believe? Them, or your Lying Eyes?
In 2014, Californians voted overwhelmingly to pass Proposition 47, known by its supporters title the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” Prop 47’s advocates made a strong case, promising that both crime and incarceration rates would decline. At the same time, supporters argued that “massive” savings from ending the practice of ...
Read about rising juvenile crime rates
California’s Lost Boys – On California’s Juvenile Crime Problem
On May 18, Monterey couple Curt and Shelley Chaffee were visiting San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Shelley is an artist and was taking photographs of the park’s bison when they were robbed at gunpoint of their Nikon camera and cell phones by two male suspects. They were able to locate ...
