A report from the Legislative Analyst's Office examined the impacts of statewide laws, and the potential effects of new ...

The initiative, Proposition 47, was intended to develop new public safety strategies and reduce incarceration after the state’s prison population exploded due to tough-on-crime policies dating ...

California’s soft-on-crime and lenient drug policies have been a proven failure. It’s time for the state to adopt a smarter strategy, which goes beyond simply passing Proposition 36.

The initiative, Proposition 47, was intended to develop new public safety strategies and reduce incarceration after the state’s prison population exploded due to tough-on-crime policies dating ...

Those changes are now up for reconsideration with Prop. 36. So while California didn’t simply open its prison doors, it did conduct the biggest reduction in a state prison population in U.S ...

That led to policy changes throughout the 2010s, including Proposition 47. It changed some theft and drug-related felonies to misdemeanors. But Lofstrom said there isn’t much broad research ...

The battle lines are being drawn in a bitter feud between centrist Democrats and progressives in California over changes to Proposition 47, a decade-old law blamed for the rise in drugs and theft ...

Los Angeles County changes sex crime policy after boy’s slaying Oscar Omar Hernandez, 13, was slain March 28, 2025. His body was found five days after he left his Sun Valley home to meet with ...

California crime victim fund ordered to change course: ‘They didn’t lift a damn finger’ Ruby Marichalar couldn't get an in-person meeting after California's crime victim compensation fund ...

Ruby Marichalar couldn’t get an in-person meeting after California’s crime victim compensation fund denied her claim. She wasn’t the only one.

California crime victim fund ordered to change course: ‘They didn’t lift a damn finger’ By Cayla Mihalovich Published March 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM PDT ...