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Brace Yourselves

Jerretta Sandoz
Vice President

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Shame on the L.A. Times for lashing out at Whitter Police Chief Jeff Piper when he had the courage to call a spade and spade. Whitter Police Officer Keith Boyer would still be alive today if not for the California criminal justice reforms put in place recently. Enough is enough and if something doesn’t change soon, crimes rate, homelessness and lawlessness will continue to soar and be uncontainable. The L.A. Times ascertains that AB 109 and Prop 47 played no role in the death of Officer Boyer. Shame on you. Get your facts straight! Oh, wait, you don’t believe in reporting the facts.

AB 109
Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed this reform bill into law in April 2011 in an effort to lessen overcrowding in state prison. This reform removed nonviolent offenders from state prisons to county jails, or placed them under county supervision rather than parole.

Truth: Whitter Officer Keith Boyer’s killer should have been in prison. Officer Boyer’s murderer was released from prison in early 2016 and violated parole on five separate occasions
in the summer of 2016. Instead of being supervised by “parole agents” and sent back to prison where he belonged, he was supervised by probation agents and granted a lesser sentence

Proposition 47 Our uninformed
Our uninformed voters in California approved this measure in November 2014. This measure downgraded drug possession and some thefts from felonies to misdemeanors and allowed tens of thousands of former offenders to remove felonies from their records. This allows repeat offenders to break the law with little consequence.

Truth: This measure was masked as the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” In fact, this measure reduces the penalties for many serious crimes like gun theft, possession of date rape drugs, and identity fraud that will lead to more crime and more criminals in our neighborhoods. This measure puts your neighborhoods at risk. Of the 3,177 offenders in state prison who would be eligible for resentencing under Prop 47, only 77 are first-time offenders. This Proposition provides no supervision, accountability, or treatment for addicted offenders.

Proposition 57
It sought to accomplish three things:

  1. Grant a parole hearing to nonviolent felons who’ve served the full sentence for their primary offense.
  2. Offer sentence credit to inmates who engage in rehabilitative and educational programs.
  3. Allow judges to decide whether a juvenile should be tried as an adult.

Truth: Masked as the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, and supported by two thirds of California voters, Prop 57 allows violent, convicted felons to receive parole after serving only a small portion of their sentences. This proposition is not limited just to nonviolent off enders. It will release a host of violent criminals convicted of violent crimes into our neighborhoods

We are all aware that our city has experienced a steady crime increase in almost all categories. Since the signing of AB 109 in April 2011, and Prop 47 in 2014, violent crime has been on the rise in California. According to the LAPD’s own stats, since 2013, crime is up 69.5 percent (see below). These numbers are unacceptable, and the residents of Los Angeles are feeling the surge. LAPD officers, as always, do all they can to ensure they protect and serve the residents of Los Angeles. But with limited Patrol resources, they are continuing to respond from call to call. I’m predicting that the impact Prop 57 will have will be just as disastrous as AB 109 and Prop 47. Please be careful out there.

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Your Board has been working daily to ensure patrol officers have the much-needed resources to do their jobs. We can no longer have bare bones in Patrol. A recent meeting with Chief Moore yielded an increase in the minimum threshold before watch commanders can call officers in to backfield Patrol. This is a step in the right direction, but our work is not done. We still need more units to ensure we provide the best service possible and protect our brother and sister officers, but we applaud Chief Moore for taking this much-needed step to increase the minimum staffing levels.

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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at [email protected], or call me at (213) 251-4593. Be safe.

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