Gov. Brown Gets Date Rape Bill:  A bill intended to soften one impact of Proposition 47, the California voter-approved measure that reduced several drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, is heading to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk for consideration and signature.  Alexei Koseff of the Sac Bee reports that Senate Bill 333 was unanimously approved by the state Senate on Thursday with a 37-0 vote.  The bill would create a new felony for the possession of date rape drugs - which has been reduced to a misdemeanor under Prop. 47 - with the attempt to commit a sexual assault.  This would provide prosecutors with the option to bring charges against someone "for making preparations to commit an assault with a date rape drug - even if the assault was never attempted."

SF Pier Shooter to Stand Trial for Murder:  The illegal immigrant accused of fatally shooting a young woman on a San Francisco pier in July will go to trial for murder.  CBS News reports that Judge Brendan Conroy said he heard enough evidence during a preliminary hearing Friday to order the jury trial for 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the seven-time convicted felon and five-time deportee from Mexico.  He has confessed to the shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, but claims that the gun fired accidentally.  The shooting has been at the center of a heated national debate regarding U.S. immigration laws after it was revealed that the Sheriff's Department released Lopez-Sanchez despite a federal request to detain him for deportation.  Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi says that he was simply adhering to city law that bars his jail from holding an inmate facing possible deportation, unless a warrant or some other judicial notice order is obtained by federal officials.  

Police Recruits Dwindle Amid Anti-Cop Climate:  Police departments nationwide are facing recruiting shortages, with some departments seeing the number of applications drop as much as 50 percent, amid growing anti-cop rhetoric that demonizes police, diminishes the job and puts targets on the backs of officers.  Fox News reports that recruitment has plummeted following the death of Michael Brown last year in Ferguson, MO, as well as the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, spawning the "Black Lives Matter" movement.  The group was formed to protest police brutality, though their language is growing more aggressive by the day, now with open calls for killing police officers.  Sgt. Delroy Burton, chairman of the DC police union in Washington, says his police force has seen nearly 600 officers resign over the past 19 months, and is currently 131 officers short.  "We're sitting ducks...And the vast majority supports this loud vocal minority," he says.