Posted on 07/24/2021 9:22:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
California is experiencing a wave of crime despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s claims of a decrease during the past three decades, officials say.
“You’ve got violent crime off the charts,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert told The Epoch Times. “You’ve got this tsunami of things that are happening. Violent crime, illegal guns, [and] rampant theft.”
On July 21 in Los Angeles, when asked if state policies are making crime worse, Newsom denied the state is seeing a rise in crime.
“The evidence doesn’t back it up. Last three decades we’ve actually seen a significant decline in crime in the state,” Newsom said.
According to a Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released in 2021, four major cities have witnessed an increase in homicide and car thefts. Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Francisco are experiencing such heightened crime despite dropping in violent crime in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Data provided by PPIC shows that in 2020, Los Angeles reported a 40 percent homicide increase in comparison to 2019; Oakland reported a 36 percent increase. San Francisco and San Diego both witnessed increases from 41 to 48 percent and 50 percent to 55 percent, respectively.
In January and February 2021, violent crime was 12 percent lower in comparison to the first few months of 2020. PPIC attributed the decrease to fewer robberies and aggravated assaults. Out of the four cities, Oakland was the only one that witnessed an increase in aggravated assaults of about 10 percent.
Schubert said lenience toward those that have committed horrid offenses is making the state a more dangerous place.
“You’ve got the Los Angeles DA who’s essentially doing everything you can do to dismantle the justice system,” Schubert said. “You’ve got a legislature who’s consistently voted for bills that weaken accountability.”
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Not true.
If you decriminalize crime, it is no longer a crime.
Last month they were calling it “a spike.”
This Newsome character is obscene and absurd. Comparing crime today to 3 decades ago? It’s like saying “it’s hotter today than yesterday, global warming!”
My family’s former Home State of California has been an EPIC DISASTER in the making for decades. It breaks our hearts and tries our souls. We abandoned our home state more than 12 years ago and relocated to Florida. All our friends told us at the time we were overreacting. Now, they ask us, How Did You Know? We simply tell them we were actually paying attention and not putting our heads in the sand.
Unexpectedly!
California voters are getting what they voted for, and they’re getting it good and hard.
And the fun part is all of those individuals with sizable California state pensions that the voters allowed are moving to places like Nevada in order to avoid having to pay California state income taxes on the pensions and other income.
I would no longer make that assumption.
There are too many dead and imaginary voters being counted in the California "elections". Plus assorted groups of ineligible voters and illegal aliens.
"It's not the people who vote that matter. It's the people who count the votes that matter".
First let tens of thousands out of prison because of overcrowding.
Then let thousands more out of prison because of COVID.
Then elect communist DAs everywhere.
Then snooker the populace into voting to make theft below $950 a misdemeanor.
Then excoriate the police nonstop and demoralize them.
Finally slash the police budgets everywhere.
Six steps in the perfect storm. But who could have possibly predicted this outcome?
True enough, but this situation was preceeded by generations of voting these will to power driven sociopaths into positions of power in the first place.
True!
I pedophilia and child pornography are only pedophilia and pornography if involving male-on-male, then when involving females, it isn’t a crime.
I recall having spent time in a country, where t hu is was the case.
In other words, crimes against females were not even crumes, let alone recorded.
So much for stats...
Leo’s in several states won’t even get involved in certain demographic jurisdictions today, unless the robbery is several hundred dollars or more.
In Europe, age of consent is down to 13 in a couple of places.
Society in general is going total “suicidal”, as fast as it can get there.
“I pedophilia” = IF pedophilia
If the GOP-e had any brains, this is the ad campaign for ‘22 and ‘24.
“This is the world Pelosi and the CA Democrats have brought to CA”
“This is what they want to bring to your home town”
Oh gee, I wonder why that is.....
IDIOTS.
CC
It’s just “transitory crime inflation”...
CA definitely needs an audit but who’s gonna call for it?
Newsome’s from the same cloth as Biden and Pelosi....happenings are never what they are but whatever they say things are.
Sanctuary state attracts a bad demographic, defunding police and encourage looting is a recipe for disaster.These clowns have zero common sense.
Said it 1000 times already, but one man said it best to me, “people are the government, and the they get what they voted for”.
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