By The Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs’ Board of Directors in Roseville & Granite Bay Press Tribune  

March 3, 2016

When Realignment was introduced, it was described as one of the “great experiments in American incarceration policy.” Unfortunately, the guinea pigs in this experiment were not the inmates released from the state prisons, but the residents of California whose lives and property was purposely put at risk.

That change was followed in short order by Proposition 47, which not only led to the release of prison inmates but reduced former felony drug and theft crimes to misdemeanors. While law enforcement warned crime rates would increase if Proposition 47 passed, voters fell for an initiative duplicitously labeled “the Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act.”

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