Matt Capelouto
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Your third conviction of a drug offense. Conviction. Conviction. Okay.
Remember, this is California, but it was only then you get the option of mandated court, mandated treatment, or you're going behind bars. And we believe this is going to nudge more people to get treatment. Treatment sounds better than going behind bars. Well, treatment's always better, but here's the thing.
And keep in mind, another aspect of this is if you successfully complete the treatment, you can have the record expunged. Because we don't want this to hurt your heart. What the hell does successfully complete the treatment mean? Well, that's out of my realm of expertise.
So we don't have that spelled out in the law. It is spelled out.
Sure. And, you know, I will tell you this. The people behind Prop 36, they have gotten experts involved and and and they have really taught people in the field working on this. But excellent. We'll see. But one of I'll be the judge of that if you don't mind. Yeah. Don't mind one bit. You should be on the panel advising them. Well, I wasn't asked.
Everybody thinks they're smarter than me, but that's fine. Well, maybe I can, you know, it's so, it's so, maybe I can do that introduction, but something else to fill in. We don't talk enough about the street level drug dealers driving this crisis. The dealer who sold to my daughter said, Weeks after knowing she was dead, reached out to his supplier to purchase more of these pills.
It took two years for him to finally be arrested. I would be foolish to believe that my daughter was his only victim. For sure. For sure. And we need to, you know, we talk about holding China accountable. My beliefs are, and the cartels, we are not going to stop these drugs from coming into our country. We've never been able to stop drugs from coming into our country.
And now we're talking about a drug that is fatal in microscopic dosages. We seal our border. It's going to come by boat. It's going to come by plane. It's going to be manufactured here. In addition to the robust education that we need in our school system to our youth, we need to hold these dealers accountable, these street-level dealers. But that's what this law just did. Absolutely.
But we still need law enforcement to make arrests so they get this admonished. Well, Nathan's not going to tolerate. Nathan's not. There are good DAs coming on board. But here's a statistic that I hope we improve on. Less than 2% of all drug deaths result in the conviction of a drug dealer. Less than 2% of these drug dealers should be getting away with murder.
They write it up as an accidental overdose. Blame the user.
It's done every day. Most of these deaths are. Why? Because they put the burden of blame on the person who they say chose to take the drugs.
That's why many counties have now formed fentanyl task forces to properly investigate. Okay. Let's, let's, let's, this is, wow. All right. We're one of the lucky few that got some semblance of justice. Okay.
Yeah. Well, keep in mind, the admonishment will be given. A lot of people are mistaken and they think a death has to occur to get the admonishment. No, just the dealing. There's the dealing. Right.
We mirrored our current DUI legislation. When somebody gets convicted of driving under the influence, they get something called the Watson admonishment. Once we enacted that and people started getting the Watson admonishment, we saw a dramatic reduction in DUI fatalities. I believe wholeheartedly the more people that get this admonishment, not everybody, not nine. No, but you're right.
You're right. You're going to see a significant... And I'll tell you why that is in a minute, but go on. There's going to be an element of people that are going to be like, oh shit, I better not deal again.
Well, obviously this person didn't learn their lesson and they're willing to risk it. But if they are able to tie this person to a death, now prosecutors will have a better chance of convicting this person of murder. The answer is nothing.
Did anything change? Under Prop 36, there are also new laws that have been enacted that come with harsher penalties for someone with multiple drug violations. So there is something. Yeah.
So, yeah, they still have to investigate. So it starts there. Law enforcement, you are correct in that nothing will happen if there's no investigation. And law enforcement has just widespread been slow to start investigating all these.
Well, you drive home a very good point with what you just said. There is an element of people that are going to have that weighing on them, on their conscience, and they are going to abide by it. Sure. I'll give you an example.
Reach out to me personally. I'm not big on social media. I do Facebook. I'm easily found on Facebook. I can be reached. Where can you be found on Facebook? Matt Capilouto. And I'm part of a nonprofit called Stop Drug Homicide. uh, stop drug homicide.org. We'll have my contact information. Um, I work with a network of parents that are all out there fighting the good fight.
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