Chris Moritz
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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And her first big task is administering AB 109, because as the head of the California Justice Department, she really has the most, you know, Highest level of presence in for sure understanding the budgetary constraints of the counties and what everyone was warning her, including the California District Attorneys Association, police unions, that this law was going to be a big problem.
And she supported it. She did nothing to try and like bring more resources to these county jails. And this is a theme actually we'll see over and over again in California where the state has some failure, some bureaucratic issues. you know, incompetency or shortfall in the budget or some issue.
And the strategy at Sacramento is to simply move that problem, shift it to localities, to counties to manage, which are also struggling. So it's kind of robbing Peter to pay Paul and nothing changes. So after AB 109 went into effect, the next year property crimes went up 9%.
And moreover, 61% of those offenders who were eligible for this program, and by the way, it's retroactive, 61% are arrested within a year and 41% are convicted again. So clearly the recidivism rate created by this law was a major problem.
Fast forward to 2014, and the worst of them all comes out of political strategy consultant firms in San Francisco, who, by the way, backed Kamala Harris to a great extent. And this is called Prop 47. Yes. So Prop 47 was... marketed to Californians.
And I should say for, you know, people who don't understand California politics, we have this, you know, a system that allows for, you know, really important legislation to be put forward directly to the voters and that's how a lot of very, very big laws in California have come to effect. The initiative system. Yeah. Like Prop 13. Exactly. And Prop 17. Exactly. Which we can talk about.
But Prop 47, excuse me, Prop 47. This was the stealing legalization. It's called, it was called just, you know, euphemistically, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. Yeah. And the idea behind it was we would, again, address the mass incarceration problem, reduce the prison capacity by shifting, again, nonviolent offenders out of state prisons and treating thefts under $950 as misdemeanors.
Prior to this law, thefts at four hundred dollars would um be felony grand larceny and this law changed it such that it would have to be above 950 dollars to become a felony so um as as a consequence of this oh there was also um as a as another another factor of uh prop 47 was that drug possession would no longer be a felony. It would be treated as a misdemeanor.
And this has also exacerbated the drug and homeless problem. In fact, I think in the years after, right after Prop 47 went into effect, the number of ER overdose cases was up 25%.
Oh, yeah. Well, Kamala Harris wrote the law that appeared on the ballot. Kamala Harris did? Yes, because in California, the attorney general of the state will write the language and the title for every proposition put before- Harris is the one who wrote the Legalized Stealing Act. Yes. And I will tell you, Steve Cooley calls it fraud by misrepresentation.
And there is a poison pill within Prop 47 that is quite shocking. And she was actually called out for it by the Sacramento Bee. And that is that these reclassified offenders would no longer be subject to mandatory and standard DNA testing. As a result, DNA testing for across the state went from 15,000 a month to 5,000 a month.
And DNA testing is super, super critical for the solving of cold case homicides, rapes, and other violent crimes that, you know, are typically associated with people with track records of crime.
So these non-violent, you know, larceny-type offenders are, you know, are very likely, you know, or at least, you know, it should be investigated whether they have some kind of connection to other crimes, as we've seen, you know, everywhere. Yeah. A small number of people commit the overwhelming majority of crime in every society. So Kamala Harris's description in the ballot for 47...
basically obfuscated this issue of the dna testing and the sacramento bee called her out on it and said that this was effectively a a misrepresentation and a failure on her part to omit this information from the voters or the authors of this are like taking the side of rapists over the population oh yeah and and well i'll tell you also uh She was not alone in writing this, the language.
I mean, Kamala Harris doesn't do anything, right? She does, she's a facilitator and an opportunist and everything, every action really she has taken in California has been on the basis of what is good for Kamala Harris. Right.
But what I have heard from my sources, who certainly would know, with Prop 47, it was significantly influenced in terms of the language by prominent figures from the criminal justice reform movement and even entities affiliated with George Soros, who's always been a funder of criminal justice reform.
Yes. Committed civilizational suicide without knowing it. Yes. We sowed our own demise. Yes. And we did so because our leaders manipulate language. Nonviolent offender, for instance, is not nonviolent offender. In fact, in the next law that came about that was, again, on our pathway to destruction, Prop 57, which passed in 2016,
That law, again, which Kamala Harris wrote the language for and which she was excoriated by other Democrats when she was running for higher office, particularly Loretta Sanchez, Prop 57 was, again, to address mass incarceration and would offer additional parole opportunities for offenders that were deemed to be, quote, nonviolent. But what is nonviolent under Prop 57?
It is anything that is not one of 23 specific crimes that is in an obscure section of the penal code. So nonviolent could be drug trafficking, human trafficking, rape by intoxication, some forms of assault. financial crimes, serious financial crimes.
And basically, these offenders under this provision would have opportunities for parole and also parole administration was also passed down to the county levels who, again, didn't have the resources to handle this new burden. So there's a striking example of... This was a ballot initiative also. Ballot initiative also passed, again, I think by a pretty good margin.
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