I. RECOMMENDATION:
Request Council to Adopt Resolution 3942 "Reducing Crime and Keeping California Safe Act of 2020.
II. BACKGROUND:
This initiative, is supported by dozens of cities, counties, law enforcement agencies and victims’ rights groups, would help improve public safety in California.
III. DISCUSSION:
This initiative, which is already supported by dozens of cities, counties, law enforcement agencies and victims’ rights groups, would help improve public safety in California by:
- Reclassifying crimes that are currently listed as “non-violent”—including rape of an unconscious person, sex trafficking of a child, and 14 other serious crimes—as “violent” to help prevent the early release of inmates convicted of these crimes,
- Reforming the parole system to stop the early release of violent felons, expand parolee oversight, and strengthen penalties for parole violations,
- Reforming theft laws to restore accountability for serial thieves and organized theft gangs, and
- Expanding DNA collection to include those convicted of drug, theft, domestic violence and other serious crimes to help solve rape, murder and other violent crimes — and to exonerate those wrongly accused.
IV. ALTERNATIVES:
None.
V. FISCAL IMPACT:
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