Steve Hilton

The goal was to stop people going to prison.

That was the purpose of all of that.

And then behind that was not just the original impetus, which was the Supreme Court ruling on overcrowding, but also the ideology, which is prison is bad because it's racist.

So it goes back to the race woke thing because, and you hear people talk like that today still, right?

That we should shut all the prisons.

Because it's racist.

Why?

Because there are disproportionate numbers of black people in prison, in jail, and especially young black men.

And as the woke ideology states, any racial disparity is always the product of racism, hence racism.

The prisons are racist, so we have to shut the prisons.

So you've had this, but that's the first thing that happened, which was Prop 47, and that had the legalized shoplifting effectively.

And a bunch of other stuff as well, but that was the main one.

And of course, what does that do?

All the people that need to steal to fuel their drug habit, and then you get this massive explosion of retail theft and car break-ins and car theft, all of that stuff.

just exploded and there's nothing you could do because they said you all you get is a you know just a sort of nothing of a sentence it's basically legalized and and there are a whole bunch of other things there's another one in a way even more absurdly egregious which was

less discussed, which is Proposition Prop 57, which is two years later.

And this one, Kamala Harris, I would argue, is more directly responsible for.

And that one, again, driven by the desire to push this decarceration agenda, downgraded a whole bunch of other crimes so that they wouldn't get automatic prison time.

And they claimed it was non-violent offenses.

They weren't touching violent offenses.