It was in March of last year that Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig stood before the Board of Supervisors and said Proposition 47 had a produced “a revolving door of low-level arrests” in Yolo County.
Since the law had been passed a few months earlier — reducing certain drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors — offenders were receiving no jail time, Reisig said.
Judges were simply referring them to probation where they received no drug treatment because no funds were available, and they inevitably committed more drug and property crimes, Reisig contended.
...Fast-forward a year and there was Reisig once again standing before supervisors last Tuesday and referring to Proposition 47 in terms very similar to last year’s:
“It’s like rolling through a spinning turnstile,” Reisig said. “Our efforts … have been pretty dismal.”
And rates of both violent and property crimes continue to rise throughout the county, he said.
Numbers provided by Cardall revealed how dismal outcomes have been:
Of the 295 active Proposition 47 cases in his department, Cardall said, “40 percent are in violation.”
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