Three Democrats vying for open California Senate seats deny in recent debate that progressive policies are going “too far” in the Golden State as crime soars, experts confront reality and data he told Fox News Digital.
“Have progressive reforms like eliminating bail for non-violent crimes and reducing certain felonies to misdemeanors gone too far?” KTLA’s Frank Buckley said on stage Monday night. asked Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, two other Democrats, and one Republican.
All three Democrats on stage, Schiff, Rep. Katie Porter and Rep. Barbara Lee, declined to directly link California’s crime spike to progressive prosecutors or policies, instead They outlined other changes they would like to see.
Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Callie Stimson and Legal Fellow Zach Smith, authors of the new book “Rogue Prosecutor: How the Radical Soros Lawyers are Destroying America’s Communities,” told FOX News Digital. He said the impact progressive policies have had on crime cannot be ignored. In California.
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”Adam Schiff and Miss Porter and Miss Lee are refusing because they don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them, the Soros money that funded the progressive prosecution movement and the bail reform movement. Therefore, there is no way he can commit political suicide. By criticizing policy,” Stimson told FOX News Digital.
Over the past several decades, California voters have passed the voting measure The bill was supported by prominent Democrats, including Proposition 47, which turned felonies into misdemeanors and lowered parole standards.
Schiff acknowledged during the debate that there is “no question” that the state has a “crime problem,” but that “the data doesn’t show that progressive reforms and proposals are to blame.” ” he said. Lee argued that tougher sentences “will not reduce crime.”
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Stimson and Smith told Fox News Digital that the opposite is true.
“The data they suggest supports their claims and actually undermines their claims,” Stimson told FOX News Digital.
“The data that’s out there actually shows that prosecuting people helps reduce crime. Mr. Lee is simply wrong when he says enhanced sentencing will not reduce crime.” said Stimson. “The U.S. Sentencing Commission has published seven consecutive studies showing that longer sentences are associated with lower recidivism rates. Compared to high-volume offenders, people serving 10 years or more in prison have a 29% lower recidivism rate; People with sentences of five years or more have a 29% lower recidivism rate. Group offenders with sentences of less than five years have a 19% lower recidivism rate.”
In response to a question about crime, Porter said the state became “so-called tough on crime” in the 1990s, citing “egregious racism that has failed communities of color for generations.” He warned against a return to sentencing policy.
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“That’s nonsense,” Smith told FOX News Digital. “If you look at the data, crime rates and incarceration rates were actually declining for years before crime spiked in the past few years.. ”
”To hear some of what they said, Adam Schiff specifically focused on organized retail theft, and Katie Porter said we should go back to the law and not impose tougher orders on crime policy. Told. We know what works to reduce violent crime rates,” Smith said. “It’s cracking down on broken windows. We’re going to put police officers on the streets. We’re going to have them do their jobs and we’re going to have aggressive prosecutors who are going to properly prosecute the cases that come before them.”
Progressive prosecutors in cities like Oakland, Los Angeles and San Francisco have faced intense criticism as crime has soared in recent years, but in their book, Stimson and Smith argue that Soros-backed prosecutors I have written in detail that I am outlining the conclusion that there are some. “Reverse Engineering” the Criminal Justice System.
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Lee’s response to a question about progressives’ “overreach” included claims that removing AK-47s and “assault weapons” from the streets is the main reason for crime in her hometown of Oakland. It was included. got out of control in recent years.
”“Her idea to remove AK-47s from the streets is a joke,” Stimson told FOX News Digital. “It’s an illegal handgun used by thugs against thugs and drug dealers.” won’t criticize Pamela Price, the Soros rogue prosecutor in her county, because she can’t. But if she had a spine, she would.”
Former baseball star Steve Garvey, the only Republican on stage Monday night, spoke out about the failure of some district attorneys in the state to do their jobs and how police officers are trying to influence certain policies. I pointed out that he had told me that he was tied up.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told Fox News Digital last year that voters were “lied to” about Prop. 47 and other ballot measures and that crime worsened as the state “stopped regulating drugs and enforcing the law.” he said.
Progressives point to a variety of studies that they say show crime and recidivism rates have improved with progressive reforms, which Smith said discounts his and Stimson’s views. He said that there is a need to accept this. written about In the past.
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“The data and the science that I know actually supports things like increased penalties like California’s three-strike law,” Smith said. “Be careful about the data and science that many on the left are trying to cite, because the research results don’t necessarily say what they claim. There is a problem.”
Smith said many Democrats, like the three who took to the stage Monday night, find it politically “advantageous for them not to criticize progressive policies meant to appease their liberal base.” “Unfortunately, I feel that this is the case,” he said.
”Retail theft and violent crime have increased significantly because of Proposition 47, and Schiff and others were in favor of it at the time, so they can’t criticize progressive policies because they were all in favor of it,” Stimson said. told FOX News Digital.
“Their answers are therefore irresponsible and should not be taken seriously at all when it comes to their so-called criminal beliefs.”. ”
