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Guest Commentary: Prop 47 Spares Offenders from Prison, but County Jail May Be Worse

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|Date: November 29, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Prop 47 Spares Offenders from Prison, but County Jail May Be Worse

By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the peop ...

By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the people for whom our state sought to decrease penalties, have been buried under a tomb of harsher pu ...

November 29, 2018
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Yolo PD: Prop 47 Offering Solutions to Homelessness

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|Date: September 06, 2018
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Yolo PD: Prop 47 Offering Solutions to Homelessness

Proposition (Prop) 47 has been blamed for a lot of problems, the most recent being a purported “explosion ...

Proposition (Prop) 47 has been blamed for a lot of problems, the most recent being a purported “explosion of homelessness” in Woodland, as recently reported by District Attorney Jeff Reisig. By Traci ...

September 06, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Blames the Homeless Problem on Prop. 47

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 02, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Blames the Homeless Problem on Prop. 47

During the campaign, it was pointed out time and again the disconnect between the voters of Yolo County, ...

During the campaign, it was pointed out time and again the disconnect between the voters of Yolo County, who overwhelmingly supported most reforms, and the positions of DA Jeff Reisig, who opposed ref ...

September 02, 2018
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My View: Drug Prosecutions in Yolo County – Long, Expensive and Unnecessary

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 04, 2018
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My View: Drug Prosecutions in Yolo County – Long, Expensive and Unnecessary

In early 2016, Paul Fullerton had his shop and his home raided by YONET (Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team). ...

In early 2016, Paul Fullerton had his shop and his home raided by YONET (Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team). Even though state law changed, it took about two years, plus a huge amount of money and resou ...

August 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Study Finds No Evidence Prop. 47 Has Led to an Increase in Violent Crime

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 14, 2018
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Study Finds No Evidence Prop. 47 Has Led to an Increase in Violent Crime

As early as 2015, Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig warned Yolo County Supervisors that Proposition 47 led to in ...

As early as 2015, Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig warned Yolo County Supervisors that Proposition 47 led to increasing property and violent crime Yolo County. “Part of the problem with Prop. 47 is that it ...

June 14, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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King’s Publication Finds Reisig Circumventing Prop 47 with Felony Charges

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 05, 2018
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King’s Publication Finds Reisig Circumventing Prop 47 with Felony Charges

National progressive organizations are paying attention to the Yolo County DA’s race now. Shaun King’s p ...

National progressive organizations are paying attention to the Yolo County DA’s race now. Shaun King’s publication, the Appeal, has a June 4 article, “Is the Yolo County District Attorney Betraying C ...

June 05, 2018
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Commentary: Overcharging is a Real Thing Especially in Yolo

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2017
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Commentary: Overcharging is a Real Thing Especially in Yolo

I have been reading the book by John Pfaff, Locked In, which seeks to explain mass incarceration, and he ...

I have been reading the book by John Pfaff, Locked In, which seeks to explain mass incarceration, and he has an interesting data analysis pushing away from what he calls “the standard story” of the ex ...

December 29, 2017
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Ballot Measure Seeks to Undo California’s Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 31, 2017
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Ballot Measure Seeks to Undo California’s Criminal Justice Reform

A coalition seeking to undo the recent string of criminal justice reform measures in California held a pr ...

A coalition seeking to undo the recent string of criminal justice reform measures in California held a press conference Monday morning to say they will file a statewide ballot initiative “to prevent t ...

October 31, 2017
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ACLU Launches Meet Your DA: Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig

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|Date: August 23, 2017
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ACLU Launches Meet Your DA: Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig

ACLU of CA launches statewide campaign to educate Californians on the role of district attorneys, the pow ...

ACLU of CA launches statewide campaign to educate Californians on the role of district attorneys, the power they wield, and their impact on mass incarceration (From Press Release) - The American Civil ...

August 23, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: Prop 47 Isn’t the Problem, It’s Ultimately the Solution

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 16, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: Prop 47 Isn’t the Problem, It’s Ultimately the Solution

The criminal justice system is broken. We have become a nation of mass incarceration and, until we figur ...

The criminal justice system is broken. We have become a nation of mass incarceration and, until we figure out better ways to treat people with problems of addiction and mental illness, we will probab ...

July 16, 2017
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Yolo County Receives $5.9M Grant to Expand Criminal Justice Diversion Programs

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|Date: June 13, 2017
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Yolo County Receives $5.9M Grant to Expand Criminal Justice Diversion Programs

(From Press Release) – On June 8, 2017, the California Board of State and Community Corrections awarded Y ...

(From Press Release) – On June 8, 2017, the California Board of State and Community Corrections awarded Yolo County a Proposition 47 grant in the amount of $5,968,215 (to be spent over a 38-month peri ...

June 13, 2017
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How To Tell If a Prosecutor Is Only Pretending To Be a Criminal Justice Reformer

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 14, 2017
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How To Tell If a Prosecutor Is Only Pretending To Be a Criminal Justice Reformer

That is the title of an article in Slate yesterday. I immediately flashed to Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig. ...

That is the title of an article in Slate yesterday. I immediately flashed to Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig. More on that in a moment. Jessica Pishko writes, “In the past few years, a new breed of distr ...

April 14, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Can We Be Safe without Overcharging Cases?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 23, 2016
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Sunday Commentary: Can We Be Safe without Overcharging Cases?

Recently we reconnected with a mother whose son was sentenced to 35 years to life. It was a case we cove ...

Recently we reconnected with a mother whose son was sentenced to 35 years to life. It was a case we covered a few years ago, where her son and others were convicted of attempted murder after they fir ...

October 23, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Crime Stats Down Across the Board in Yolo County, Allaying Fears of Prop 47 Crime Wave

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 11, 2016
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Crime Stats Down Across the Board in Yolo County, Allaying Fears of Prop 47 Crime Wave

In early April, the Vanguard reported that first quarter 2016 crime stats moved downward in Davis and Wes ...

In early April, the Vanguard reported that first quarter 2016 crime stats moved downward in Davis and West Sacramento. Statistics now available presented by the Woodland Police Department show that cr ...

May 11, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Crime Moves Back Down in 2016 in Davis and West Sacramento

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2016
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Crime Moves Back Down in 2016 in Davis and West Sacramento

It was nearly a month ago that Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, along with Chief Probation Officer Brent Carda ...

It was nearly a month ago that Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, along with Chief Probation Officer Brent Cardall, blamed the implementation of Proposition 47 on a cited rising crime rate. “All of the major ...

April 06, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Is Prop 47 to Blame For Increase in Crime in California?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 17, 2016
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Analysis: Is Prop 47 to Blame For Increase in Crime in California?

After historic lows in crime, crime has ticked back up in the past year. There is a lot of finger-pointin ...

After historic lows in crime, crime has ticked back up in the past year. There is a lot of finger-pointing, but the fact of the matter is that we won’t know for a few years if this is the beginning of ...

March 17, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Governor’s Budget Keeps Prop 47 Savings from Communities

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 13, 2016
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Governor’s Budget Keeps Prop 47 Savings from Communities

by Margaret Dooley-Sammuli The governor’s proposed state budget released today includes the current Depar ...

by Margaret Dooley-Sammuli The governor’s proposed state budget released today includes the current Department of Finance estimate of savings resulting from Proposition 47. This first estimate puts FY ...

January 13, 2016
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Eye on the Courts: Where is the Prop 47 Money?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 04, 2016
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Eye on the Courts: Where is the Prop 47 Money?

This weekend, the Yolo County DA’s Facebook page linked a story from KCRA, “Meth takes frightening toll o ...

This weekend, the Yolo County DA’s Facebook page linked a story from KCRA, “Meth takes frightening toll on addicts.” The comment was added, “Methamphetamine continues to be one of the most addictive a ...

January 04, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Even Under Crime Rate Increases, Reason For Hope

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 01, 2016
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Analysis: Even Under Crime Rate Increases, Reason For Hope

For the first time in over a decade, crime rose across the board in Los Angeles, including a 19.9 percent ...

For the first time in over a decade, crime rose across the board in Los Angeles, including a 19.9 percent increase in violent crime along with a 10.3 percent increase in property crime, the LA Times r ...

January 01, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Prop 47 Loophole Finds Man Charged With Felony Possession of Testosterone

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 24, 2015
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Prop 47 Loophole Finds Man Charged With Felony Possession of Testosterone

Judge Paul Richardson held a West Sacramento man to answer for felony possession of roughly 15 ml of test ...

Judge Paul Richardson held a West Sacramento man to answer for felony possession of roughly 15 ml of testosterone, during a preliminary hearing on Wednesday that the judge acknowledged raised interest ...

December 24, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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