Criminal Justice Reform

California's Proposition 47 sets $950 as the amount a person can steal without facing felony charges. Even when thieves are caught, their fines usually are less than the amount they steal.

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office charged Bell with a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass to a motor vehicle, and he was released on his own recognizance, without paying bail. Two days later he was arrested for shooting a police officer.

George Soros has spent over $13.4-million on district attorney races in local governments. Without passing a single law, a DA prosecutor can remake a city's justice system. Philadelphia's DA is undermining the existing legal system because it is 'racist', and the homicide rate has risen 12%.

A record 220,300 public school teachers reported that they were physically attacked by a student during the 2015-2016 school year. California passed Senate Bill 419, prohibiting the suspension of disruptive kids. [Be sure to check out the readers' comments for these articles.]

Kim Gardner, a radical leftist funded by George Soros, is the St. Louis prosecutor for state-level criminal cases. She made a list of 50 police officers whose work she rejects, refusing to press charges against criminals they arrest because she claims they are racists.

A group of seven hooded men stole electronics valued at $50,000 from an Apple store. This is the third time this month that the store has been hit. Smash and Grab robberies are a growing trend across the US.

For example, in Chicago, police terminated stop-and-frisk encounters in late 2015, and murders increased by 58% by the end of 2016. An astounding 239 additional murders were attributed to the police withdrawal.

Tulsi Gabbard criticized Kamala Harris for putting over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when asked if she ever smoked marijuana, and for blocking "evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the court’s forced her to do so.”

59 homicide/aggravated assault convicts and 239 rapists and sex offenders have been released so far this year. The First Step law turns over the power to release prisoners to administrators at the Bureau of Prisons that can release whoever they want to.

Democrat Senator Cory Booker introduced legislation that would allow anyone in prison for more than 10 years to petition for release -- thus, requiring the state to prove its case all over again!