Pubdate: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 Source: Orange County Register, The (CA) Copyright: 2015 The Orange County Register Contact: http://www.ocregister.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/321 Author: Lloyd Edwards PROP. 47 SUCCESSFUL? If you claim success is reducing the jail population that is correct. We have long known that most crimes are drug related. Endangering lives by robbing people and stores at gunpoint, breaking into your home or car and taking your precious items to be sold for pennies on the dollar to finance their drug habit, all manner of violence with drug dealers on the streets, sex crimes like prostitution and credit card fraud, identity theft and gang violence are all related to drugs. All you need do now is watch the news, with another police chase, shooting and the like, every day. Cops will tell you they see much more violent and property crime as a result of this change. We had been working to stop this by creating the three strikes program and education systems such as DARE programs to keep kids, along with our communities, safe and off drugs. Prop. 47 undermined all of this. Now possession of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine is a citation release and they are right back at it. Not to mention the reduction in sentencing for burglary and theft. We need to repeal this law and do it quickly, before more drug use, more violence and more crime becomes the new normal and our society falls further victim to this crazy liberalism. Lloyd Edwards Huntington Beach - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom