Coming forward to report a serious crime can no longer get you deported in California. On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1261, dubbed the “Immigrant Rights Act,” his office announced. The bill, which was authored by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón and sponsored by Assembly Member Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles), is […]
over that same month in 2021, despite eric adams efforts. it takes a little time to turn around a trajectory. people across the united states are frustrated, people after decades of taking crime decline for granted. the bound crime rate hit a low in 2014 and then began to climb. no single thing created this dynamic, but in addition to more illegal guns flooding the streets there are well intentioned reforms that didn t work out as planned. california, proposition 47 has back fired badly. it was passed in 2014 to reduce criminal penalties, decriminalizing thefts under $950. spoiler alert, this was a bad idea. critics say it helped spur a wave of shoplifting which led to a bipartisan called to amend the law in the state legislature. there is a recall directed at the son of a weather underground who pursued aggressive agenda as a prosecutor. new york, far reaching reform removed cash bail for most
significant in that situation. san francisco, like chicago, like boston, like soon to be in new york, atlanta, everyone of these cities having problems, take a look at the district attorneys. most of them funded by george sorros and his open society. they re undoing 25 years of crime decline in america rapidly, the last two years. we have not seen anything like the crime increases in modern history. thank the d.a. the mayors can talk all they want. if the district attorneys refuse to prosecute, you won t see any changes. martha: why arrest, why try when you know the people will be released. we ve seen it day after day in new york city. i want to get your thoughts on the white house response and how much you think they could be doing to revise the messaging on this. here s jen psaki talking about
minneapolis. and it would split authority for the police department between the mayor and the city council. so it s not literally defunding the police but it is putting a lot of those ideas into place at a time when crime is spiking and incumbent mayor jacob frey is really fighting for his political life against 16 challengers right now. wow. okay. that one is going to be one to watch. let s talk about races in atlanta and new york. that s where the candidates are focusing on how to address spikes in violent crime. eric adams here in new york has run a very tough on crime campaign. is public safety one of the biggest issues voters are looking at right now? you just talked about minneapolis, talked about the issue of crime and what an issue of a department of public safety. what about here? in new york city decades of crime decline, really seeing an uptick in recent years. so eric adams ran a centrist campaign saying he was going to be tough on crime but also tough on police abuse o
city. new york city over the last two years has seen 100% increase in shootings and a 50% increase in murders in two years. that s after 28 straight years of crime decline, murder decline. those numbers aren t going to change anytime soon. you brought up bail reform, bail reform is an issue important to a lot of people, a lot of people on the other side of the criminal justice system, but when we talk to active and former police chiefs like yourself it s something that people always bring up. why? what do you see? it s a system that was abused in many respects and particularly in poor and minorities were kept in jail because they didn t have the money to get out of jail. you re going to find most police chiefs are supportive of bail reform, but it s the expression of bridge too far. we went many bridges too far and coupled with the coronavirus issue, the criminal justice system, the court system, collapsed in america. we didn t have trials so people would be let out and with no tri