Steve Hilton

But if you look at the list of crimes that they downgraded that could no longer qualify for automatic prison time, literally one of them is domestic violence.

Like it's in the name of the thing, but they said it was non-violent.

So domestic violence, the rape of an unconscious woman.

Now downgraded.

Trafficking a child for sex.

A whole bunch of child sex crimes.

So that's what happened.

And it's just gone on and on.

And it was driven by this ideology of we can't have anyone in jail because jails are racist.

Correct.

Not automatic.

Correct.

I know, I know.

And Kamala Harris pushed this as state attorney general.

She's more responsible for that than, I mean, in the whole sort of national conversation,

And actually, that first one I mentioned, the $950 a day, that was mostly reversed last year in an initiative that was passed called Prop 36.

That kind of reversed most of that.

But the other stuff in Prop 57, the downgrading of all these unspeakable crimes that they wouldn't, you could still get at jail centers, but not automatic.

was the Republicans in the state legislature have been battling for years, literally for years, to pick them off one by one, to try and reinstate them.

And the definition is serious and violent offense.